The Irish Boarding House: Completely heart-warming Irish historical fiction by Sandy Taylor
Author:Sandy Taylor [Taylor, Sandy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781803140827
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: 2022-08-31T16:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER 27
Claire Devlin had been watching the house for weeks. Sheâd chosen a bench where she could see the front door, but no one inside could see her. It had become her routine, it gave her something to look forward to, it gave her a reason to get out of bed. She watched the comings and goings of her friends, for since that day, when she had been welcomed by them all and made such a fuss of, thatâs what they had become â her friends, the only friends she had. She couldnât remember their names, or even what they looked like, but none of that mattered. She remembered how they had made her feel and if she wanted to, she could walk across the green and knock on the door. So why didnât she? Why didnât she do just that? She frowned; had she been invited back? She couldnât remember and, until she could, it would be rude to assume that she would be welcomed back.
Sheâd watched the tall woman and a little girl going for their daily walk, always accompanied by a black-and-white dog racing around them. Sheâd seen an older woman and a young girl hurrying down the steps. Sheâd followed them one day, as they went into the butcherâs and the grocerâs â sheâd enjoyed that day. They all looked so familiar to her but she didnât know where she could have known them from. Sometimes images would come into her head, little snatches of something, never the whole picture. Somewhere dark, somewhere cold and damp. She tried so hard to hang on to these images but just as they started to make sense, they were gone. The only thing that was real to her was the house and something else⦠something she had to do, something that would make everything better, something behind the red door.
Claire watched as a young girl raced across the square and into the boarding house. She didnât have to wait long before the door opened and the girl and a woman ran down the steps and headed towards town. Claire decided to follow them, keeping out of sight as much as she could.
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