Love & Marriage by Betty Neels

Author:Betty Neels
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 1999-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Mr ter Breukel had gone; Sarah gave in her notice and wrote and told her mother that she would see to the packing up of the things she wished for, and arrange for the furniture to be collected, but that she herself would be staying in London. ‘I have a good job and somewhere to live,’ she wrote recklessly, ‘and I intend to become independent. I am sure that you and my stepfather will be very happy in your new home, but please understand that I would like to lead a life of my own…’

Naturally enough, this letter caused a flood of telephone calls and indignant letters, to which Sarah replied firmly. ‘It isn’t that I don’t love you, Mother, as you suggest, but I do wish for my own life, and you must agree with me that my stepfather will be glad not to have me in the house. Once you are settled in, with a good housekeeper and everything to your liking, I’m sure that you will see the good sense of this. Later on, when I get my holidays, I will come and visit you.’

Mrs Twist, shocked at first at Sarah’s decision, agreed that it was a chance which might never occur again. ‘Just as long as yer get a good job…’

‘Oh, I shall,’ said Sarah airily. ‘I’ll stay here until I do. It may take a week or two until I find something I would like to do.’

Mrs Twist studied her face. ‘Let’s hope so. You look peaked, Miss Sarah, and you’ve got thin. That job at the hospital was too hard work.’

It had certainly been that, agreed Sarah silently, but Litrik had been there too. She thought about him constantly, and now she would never see him again she called him Litrik. It didn’t matter any more; he had really gone out of her life, and now she had left the canteen there were no more snatches of gossip to be gleaned about him.

She began looking for work, setting about it in a dogged fashion, answering anything which sounded suitable for her meagre talents. But she had no luck; her letters were ignored, or she was told the job had been filled, and the few interviews she went to were unsuccessful. She had so few skills, and serving in a canteen, however good her reference was, wasn’t enough.

Finally she found work, filling shelves at a supermarket. It was part-time, from half past seven in the morning until noon, and it was work she could do without needing anything other than an ability to work hard and quickly and to be honest. It was only a short bus ride from her home too, and although the wages weren’t much she was able to save almost all of her pay packet since she was still living at home.

But there was a prospective buyer for the house, and she would need to earn more money if she had to find a bedsitter. She became a little thinner, and a little paler, and muddled in with her worries was the constant image of Litrik.

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