The Garment & Slinky Jane by Catherine Cookson

Author:Catherine Cookson [Cookson, Catherine]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fiction, Sagas
ISBN: 9780552147057
Google: 6EkGAAAACAAJ
Publisher: Transworld Publishers Limited
Published: 1999-07-15T15:11:55+00:00

‘Can I tell Renee?’

‘I’d rather you didn’t, not yet.’

‘Just as you say…I suppose I’ll have to look you over. What about tomorrow afternoon? And stay and have a cup of tea, Renee’s always delighted to see you…I won’t tell her, she’ll think it’s just a check-up.’

‘Thanks, I’ll come down.’

‘Well, I must be off.’

‘Won’t you stay and have a coffee?’

‘No, no thanks, I’m off to the Farleys. Papa Farley’s got rheumatism—we used to call it gout. Do you know that Bertrand Farley has joined up…the army? I saw him in his uniform yesterday; it does something for him. I won’t say he doesn’t need it.’ He gave Grace a dig with his thumb, and she laughed. They laughed together, and as they crossed the hall her laughter rose much louder than the joke had warranted.

She was still laughing when she returned to the breakfast room, but when she stood before the fire with her foot on the fender and her hand on the mantelpiece her laughter stopped abruptly and with her teeth clamping down on her lip she began to cry—painfully slow tears.

It was Andrew, after all, whom she told first. Not from within the security of his arms under the shelter of the rock wall in the quarry, but on the open road outside an empty cottage at Culbert’s Cut. She had come once again to look at this place, wondering whether she would buy it, and having done so would it then be easier to persuade Ben to accept it? It was going for three hundred pounds. That was quite a bit for this type of property, but what was three hundred pounds compared with Ben’s idle hands? The cottage stood alone, about a quarter of a mile from the village, and the land around it was flat and open.

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