Candlenight
“Home time.
Bethan was bustling about the school hall attending to children's major crises: the four-year-old boy whose shoelace had come undone, the girl of six with a broken nail.
"Try not to get it wet or it will come off," she said, adjusting the Band-Aid round the child's finger then turning to help a small boy who'd buttoned his coat all wrong.
A handful of mothers were waiting for the smallest children. They watched her with indulgent smiles, none of them rushing to help her. ...Perhaps they thought this was the kind of therapy she needed to cure her of widowhood.
The mothers took their kids and left, leaving Bethan with just three small pupils waiting to be collected and a strange woman standing hesitantly in the doorway, clutching one of those slim, garish packages in which prints and negatives are returned from processing.
"Mrs. Freeman," Bethan remembered. "You rang this morning. You wanted to see me." "Hello," the woman said. She looked down at the photo envelope.MoreLess
Bethan was bustling about the school hall attending to children's major crises: the four-year-old boy whose shoelace had come undone, the girl of six with a broken nail.
"Try not to get it wet or it will come off," she said, adjusting the Band-Aid round the child's finger then turning to help a small boy who'd buttoned his coat all wrong.
A handful of mothers were waiting for the smallest children. They watched her with indulgent smiles, none of them rushing to help her. ...Perhaps they thought this was the kind of therapy she needed to cure her of widowhood.
The mothers took their kids and left, leaving Bethan with just three small pupils waiting to be collected and a strange woman standing hesitantly in the doorway, clutching one of those slim, garish packages in which prints and negatives are returned from processing.
"Mrs. Freeman," Bethan remembered. "You rang this morning. You wanted to see me." "Hello," the woman said. She looked down at the photo envelope.MoreLess
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