The Girl I Used to Know by Faith Hogan

Author:Faith Hogan [Hogan, Faith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781786692863
Publisher: Aria
Published: 2017-11-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 22

Forty-eight years earlier…

It was strange, this new imbalance in her relationship with Douglas. She still loved him, perhaps she always would. Now they bumped into each other and it seemed as if they were stepping into a new dance with each other. The Christmas holidays were coming up and Tess had a feeling that the break might do them both good. Secretly, she hoped that if Douglas didn’t see her for a few weeks he’d be overcome with loneliness and realise that he loved her as much as she loved him. It seemed like her only chance at this stage.

At least Nancy was happier in herself. She left each day for her secretarial course with a real bounce in her step and arrived home later each evening. When Tess quizzed her about her new friends, she fobbed her off with ‘Oh, just a bunch of girls from the course.’ Tess was happy for her because Nancy had never been one to make a big circle of friends. She wondered, too, if maybe she’d met a boy. There was something about her, a new-found lightness and Tess recognised it as that same feeling she had in those first few days when she would run into Douglas in the university corridors. Sometimes she thought about those days, the world was a different place then, before they’d kissed, before they’d gone to the ball. It saddened her to think that life would never go back to those carefree days. As far as Douglas was concerned, it was as though, she’d completely lost her value.

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