Her
“Of course, I’m full of doubts; that’s only to be expected. Entirely natural. What will we do if Cecily doesn’t go down like a stone at 7 p.m.? Will Sophie cope if she wakes up? What if Christopher cries and begs me not to go, not to leave him with this girl he doesn’t really know at all?
I voice these fears to Fran after Monkey Music, and she gives me a pep talk, as I hoped she would.
‘God, you lucky lucky thing,’ she says, trying to interest Ruby in a Babybel. It’s a mild day, we’ve filled Tup...perware boxes with egg sandwiches and dried apricots and Jammy Dodgers, and we’re chancing a picnic, the first of the year. The recreation ground stretches out ahead of us, the grass marked here and there with the scars and gouges of winter football. At the little Tyrolean cuckoo-clock café, a short queue snakes to the hatch: people wanting salted caramel or lemon curd ice-cream. Above the line of trees the sky is suddenly clear and blue, and for a moment, sitting here on the bench while Cecily sleeps and Christopher and Ruby collect twigs, it all seems within my grasp.MoreLess
I voice these fears to Fran after Monkey Music, and she gives me a pep talk, as I hoped she would.
‘God, you lucky lucky thing,’ she says, trying to interest Ruby in a Babybel. It’s a mild day, we’ve filled Tup...perware boxes with egg sandwiches and dried apricots and Jammy Dodgers, and we’re chancing a picnic, the first of the year. The recreation ground stretches out ahead of us, the grass marked here and there with the scars and gouges of winter football. At the little Tyrolean cuckoo-clock café, a short queue snakes to the hatch: people wanting salted caramel or lemon curd ice-cream. Above the line of trees the sky is suddenly clear and blue, and for a moment, sitting here on the bench while Cecily sleeps and Christopher and Ruby collect twigs, it all seems within my grasp.MoreLess
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