Light a Penny Candle by Maeve Binchy

Author:Maeve Binchy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub, pdf
Tags: Europe, Friendship, Bildungsromans, Family Life, General, Family & Relationships, Ireland, Fiction, Domestic Fiction, History
ISBN: 9780451222640
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 1982-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

know. He was having coffee with her in the hotel. Honestly. So I thought I'd mark your card, you know, if ever there's a chance of me being a bridesmaid I don't want to lose it.' Aisling looked up. Her face was very pale. 'What? What

are you saying?'

Niamh was shocked. 'No, nothing, I don't know if he was really with her or not, you know, it's just Anna Barry and all those, their sisters tell them gossip. I'm sure it's all made

up. . . .'

'Oh my God.'

Niamh was frightened now. She scrambled off the chair where she had been kneeling. 'Listen, I said there was nothing in it, I was only repeating eejity old things, Aisling, it's all right. . . sure don't you know he fancies you like mad? Aisling answer me . . . don't you know . . . ?'

'It's Elizabeth's mother, she's . . . she's tried to kill herself and Harry . . . my God isn't that desperate. . . .' Niamh was openmouthed.

'She's in a mental home . . . oh, I don't know whether Mam told you or not, she doesn't tell you things sometimes . . . anyway, Harry ... he was sitting talking to her quite normally, and she said she wanted him to cut off a trailing string from her cardigan with his penknife and when he took it out of his pocket she grabbed it and stuck it into him first and then her. Oh God, isn't that terrible.' 'And did she kill him ... ?'

'No, but he had to have eleven stitches, and now she's in a different ward, almost a cell I think, and she can't have normal visitors and she thinks there's going to be another war . . . and she says she couldn't live through another one. Oh why do all these bloody things happen to Elizabeth . . . ?

It's so unfair.'

'Did Elizabeth go to see her?'

'Oh yes, she's been up there in the north of England for a week. She's written from there, but she's probably back in London by now. There's nothing anyone can do, and she's spent a week on her own going from the one hospital to the other and back to the little shop on her own at night. Did you ever hear of anything so awful?'

'But her boyfriend . . . would he go up and help her? Why isn't he there . . . ?'

'Because he's a real beaut, that's why, he's the cat's pyjamas, that fellow, there'll be a good reason why he could never be involved in any trouble. ..."

'I thought you liked him, you said he was smashing-looking. . . .'

'He looks like a Greek god. That doesn't make him any help though.'

'If these kind of things happened to you, I bet Tony Murray would stick by you. . . God forbid, if Mam went mad and stabbed Dad.'

'Niamh will you shut your stupid face and go away?'

'I'm just telling you to count your blessings that's all.

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