The September Girls by Maureen Lee

Author:Maureen Lee [Lee, Maureen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Orion Publishing Group
Published: 2010-09-09T00:00:00+00:00

Sybil saw them together one night in a café in Rabat. They were with Fielding and another Air Force chap: slim and boyish, exceptionally handsome. The pair seemed to be getting on well, laughing heartily over something. But the other two, Cara and her companion, had eyes only for each other, talking quietly, smiling occasionally and holding hands across the table. Every now and then, the man would lift Cara’s hand to his lips and kiss it, and the look he would give her - and she him! It was obvious they were madly in love. The man wasn’t even faintly handsome, but there was something about him, about his face - at first, Sybil couldn’t figure out what it was - something decent and good, she decided, and terribly romantic. She reckoned he would make a marvellous lover. Had he and Cara made love yet? she wondered.

‘I say, this crab is delicious,’ Alec Townend remarked. ‘What do you think, darling?’

‘Delicious,’ Sybil murmured. Lately, he’d begun to get on her nerves. He was so dull. She couldn’t recall him once saying anything remotely interesting. She’d give him up and start going out with someone else - that other lieutenant, John Glover, who’d invited her to dinner the other day. Sybil pushed the crab away and twisted restlessly in her chair, wishing she’d been sent somewhere more exciting. Like Alec, Malta was very dull. Nothing happened. She glanced across the crowded restaurant, full of servicemen and women. There was a space in the middle for people to dance and a few had got up and were dancing to the little local band playing ‘I’m in the Mood for Love’. It had been in that film she’d seen with Alec the first time they’d gone out together. Tonight, it sounded very amateurish, as if the band weren’t used to playing that sort of music. Cara and her chap were up, she noticed, and they moved slowly around the floor, wrapped so tightly in each other’s arms they could have been one person.

For some reason, Sybil felt tears come to her eyes. That was what she wanted, for someone to love her, not in the possessive, suffocating way that Daddy did, or in the indifferent way of the mother who’d deserted her and only really cared for Jonathan, but the way the young airman loved Cara.

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