Tilly Trotter Wed by Catherine Cookson

Author:Catherine Cookson [Cookson, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Cookson, saga, women's general fiction, Romance, historic, social history, Fiction
Publisher: Peach Publishing
Published: 2011-03-23T13:00:00+00:00

That Katie was the envy of her sisters was plain to be seen, but that she herself was also fearful of the journey and of the new life ahead of her was equally evident, for as she said to her mother as she stood by the table laden with the fare they had been cooking for the last two days: ‘What if I don’t like it, Ma?’

‘You can always come home, lass. They’ll see to it. You can always come home.’

‘Yet I wouldn’t want to leave her.’

‘Well, what you’ve got to remember, our Katie, is that she’s got a husband and as yet you haven’t, so if the place doesn’t suit you or you don’t suit it, come back to where you belong.’

‘I’m all excited inside, Ma.’

‘I’m all sad inside, lass.’

For the first time that Katie could remember, her mother enfolded her in her arms and so warming was her mother’s embrace that she began to cry and said, ‘I don’t know whether I want to go or not, Ma.’

Biddy pushed her away, saying, ‘You’re goin’. Your bags are packed, your ticket’s got, and, who knows, you might find a lad out there who’ll take a fancy to your face.’

‘Oh, our Ma! I’m going to miss you our Ma.’

‘And I’ll miss you, lass. And I’ll miss her an’ all because she’s been like one of me own. You know that.’

‘Aye, I do. Sometimes I’ve thought you even think more of her than you do of any of us.’

Biddy didn’t answer this; instead, she said, ‘I’d be happy to know that she’s got you with her because there’ll be times when she’ll need a friend and comforter.’

‘Oh, I can’t see that, Ma, not having him.’

‘Aye, me girl, it’s just because she does have him for, as I see it, he’s gona be no easy packet is Master Matthew. Jealous as sin he’ll be of her, you mark my words, an’, like the devil, he’ll hold on to what he’s got; and she being who she is, ’cos she’s of a proud nature, there’ll come times I’m sure when he’ll hold the reins too tightly and she won’t like the bit in her mouth. Then the skull and hair’ll fly.’

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