All for Her by Penny Best

Author:Penny Best
Language: eng
Format: azw3
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Publisher: Orla Kelly Publishing
Published: 2019-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 10

The leaves are making dancing shadows on the lane up to Fern Hollow. The climb is steep in the warmth of an early summer morning. I fix my skirt and blouse umpteen times on the stride to be with Ernest. The satchel sways with purpose and the strap pinches. Dottie packed a mountain of freshly baked bread and scones. The butter I made will be melted with the hot morning, my fiery thoughts and the warm bread wrapped up beside it.

The dog is off its chain and she runs to greet me, licking at the satchel and my bare legs. The butter must have melted, but on I march. There are no men about and hope sinks into buttery socks. The kitchen looks much as I left it. The table clear of cups and plates and the floor un-muddied with a slight sheen to the orange and black tiles. The dog must’ve been told not to enter as despite the smell of the bread, she doesn’t nose in past the lintel.

The air smells of Ernest, but that’s all perhaps nonsense. I race to the lower bedroom to check if he’s there waiting. No, he isn’t. The bed is made, and a shirt lies over the brass bedpost. I sniff at it and soar away for a second or two. On the way up the corridor there’s another door ajar and in I go. The big window in the wall opposite the door is open. The bed in the centre of the room is unmade with the wardrobe at its foot open and strewn with clothes.

Walking in, Edward’s shoes peek out from under the large bed beside the empty chamber pot. Their mother’s features growl from a frame on the low stool by the bedside. A bible is propped there too with a slim book under it. I cannot make out the title and don’t want to pry further. I notice that there’s no mirror and the washstand has pink flowers on it, perhaps inherited from Mrs Tandy. The window’s view is of the fields that stretch out to the back and side of the house. Edward can pull the flowery curtains and lord over all he owns. Fields roll out one after another and it is clear that the land is good and ripe for hay.

This might have been the marital chamber when Mrs Tandy’s husband could look out over all the land. Edward must’ve taken this big room over as well. I feel a jab of annoyance for Ernest. Left to linger in the room he’s inhabited since he was a child, while Edward becomes a man and takes the best of everything.

There’s the noise of hooves and someone calls out, but the dog isn’t barking. I take to the corridor and up to the kitchen. Edward’s there with turf for the range. I hide my disappointment that he’s not his brother.

“Good morning. I wondered where you were?” Out from behind me I pull his chamber pot. “There’s no need for you to empty those,” he says.

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