Forever Yours
“Once in the back lane he walked purposefully and without hesitation: wild horses couldn’t have kept him from seeing Constance. When he had told his mother that he intended to call round and pay his respects, she’d been all for it.
‘Oh aye, lad,’ she’d said at once, patting his arm. ‘They’d appreciate it, I’m sure, and Constance would like to see you again. She’s took it hard, her grandma going like that, and I daresay she’s regretting going away, but then that was her choice. Still, I did feel ...sorry for her this afternoon when I popped round. She barely said more than a word or two the whole time I was there.’ That didn’t surprise him. His mother could talk the hind leg off a donkey when she got going, and Molly was the same.
When he reached Blackett Street the air was sweeter. It was the last street in the New Town development and backed on to open fields, and the heady scent of freshly cut hay wafted on the faint breeze from the surrounding countryside. Normally he would have stopped for some minutes and taken great gulps, filling his lungs to the brim.MoreLess
‘Oh aye, lad,’ she’d said at once, patting his arm. ‘They’d appreciate it, I’m sure, and Constance would like to see you again. She’s took it hard, her grandma going like that, and I daresay she’s regretting going away, but then that was her choice. Still, I did feel ...sorry for her this afternoon when I popped round. She barely said more than a word or two the whole time I was there.’ That didn’t surprise him. His mother could talk the hind leg off a donkey when she got going, and Molly was the same.
When he reached Blackett Street the air was sweeter. It was the last street in the New Town development and backed on to open fields, and the heady scent of freshly cut hay wafted on the faint breeze from the surrounding countryside. Normally he would have stopped for some minutes and taken great gulps, filling his lungs to the brim.MoreLess
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