Molly by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781788633581
Publisher: Canelo
Published: 2019-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter Twenty-Six

John Marsden moved out of The Larches in mid-December. Two days later, in damp and drizzling weather, the Bentons moved in. An hour after the cart carrying their furniture had pulled up outside the door Molly stood in near despair in the middle of a chaos that seemed to have no great intention of allowing itself to be sorted out, wishing that not quite so many people had felt it their duty to help. Even Edward had gleefully taken an illicit day off from school and was alternately tripping over things – at twelve he had lost the neat prettiness of his early years and was becoming a gangling, clumsy adolescent – or chasing Danny and the twins around the new house until they were all worked up to such a pitch of excitement that one of the younger ones, usually Kitty, ended up in tears.

“Edward!” Arms piled high with linen, her smudged and dusty face a picture of exasperation, Molly stuck out a foot and barred the way into the empty parlour. “For heaven’s sake, stop dashing round like a maniac and make yourself useful. Those books over there—” she nodded her head at a pile of books that had tipped and spread themselves across the floor of the hall— “they’re Nancy’s. Take them up to her rooms for me, please. Before someone breaks their neck. And, please do try not to drop them on Meg’s head on the way… Oh Jack, no! Can’t you get some of this stuff into the rooms before you unload more? We’re getting in a terrible muddle.”

Jack swung the heavy box to the floor as if it had been full of feathers and several small brass ornaments fell from it with a crash and scattered across the floor. He did not bother to pick them up. “We’re paying the carter by the half-hour, lass. Sooner we get unloaded, sooner it stops costing us.” He cocked his head, listening. “God Almighty, what are those kids doing?”

“God Almighty’s the only one who knows.” Molly, muttering, dropped to her knees to retrieve the fallen ornaments. At the street door she heard Jack greet someone. She sat back on her heels. Surely, oh surely not someone else who felt duty-bound to “help”? She scrambled to her feet to find herself face to face with a completely strange young man who was obviously as taken aback at their sudden confrontation as she was. He was rather tall, painfully thin with a pale, sensitive face that was badly marred by the spots and eruptions of late adolescence. Molly judged him to be about seventeen years old.

“I’m – I’m most dreadfully sorry,” he said, his precisely accented voice cracking miserably in mid-sentence. “I didn’t realize—” He gestured at the mess, jumped as Jack banged through the door carrying single-handed a load that might have made a mule kick.

‘It’s our Nancy he’s looking for.” Jack made to dump the box on the floor.

“Jack! That’s the best china! Careful—” Molly flew

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