A Woman's Place
“It had been sent early that morning, the eleventh of September; with three or four posts daily, mail was guaranteed to reach its destination by lunchtime. Though not as fast, the letter was so short as to be as brief as any telegram.
Sorry not to have replied before, but a lot has happened. I will see you at this afternoon’s meeting. Connie.
This formal communication did not even respond to her own news that she was now living with Gran, although the letter had come to Gran’s address rather tha...n her parents’, so Connie must have taken note of what she’d written.
Intrigued and concerned, Eveline arrived at the meeting ahead of most of the women. She watched one after the other hurry in from the dreary afternoon, shaking their brollies before entering and going downstairs to the cloakroom to take off their wet outdoor things, but could see no sign of Connie.
She grew ever more anxious, having been one of the first to go down to the cloakroom, hardly lingering to hang up her coat, stack her brolly in the umbrella stand and adjust her hat before coming up to begin her wait; she couldn’t have missed her.MoreLess
Sorry not to have replied before, but a lot has happened. I will see you at this afternoon’s meeting. Connie.
This formal communication did not even respond to her own news that she was now living with Gran, although the letter had come to Gran’s address rather tha...n her parents’, so Connie must have taken note of what she’d written.
Intrigued and concerned, Eveline arrived at the meeting ahead of most of the women. She watched one after the other hurry in from the dreary afternoon, shaking their brollies before entering and going downstairs to the cloakroom to take off their wet outdoor things, but could see no sign of Connie.
She grew ever more anxious, having been one of the first to go down to the cloakroom, hardly lingering to hang up her coat, stack her brolly in the umbrella stand and adjust her hat before coming up to begin her wait; she couldn’t have missed her.MoreLess
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