I'm On the Train! (2012)
“Could this really be October 2009? That long, snaking line of credulous ‘pilgrims’, queuing to view the dismembered relics of St Thérèse of Lisieux, was more suggestive of the Middle Ages, and of a devoutly Catholic country, than of nominally Protestant England, in the increasingly secular twenty-first century.
Suddenly, she tensed, aware of a black-cassocked figure striding towards her, across the square: Father Thomas Mortimer, a fellow guest at her mother’s recent lunch party. Her immedi...ate reaction – mingled apprehension and annoyance – was hardly appropriate for such an eminent priest, so she forced her features into an expression of polite respect.
‘Helen!’ he enthused. ‘How nice to see you again! You’ve come to view the relics, I presume? The response has been phenomenal, you know.’ ‘Yes, I read about it, Father.’ The word ‘Father’ stuck in her throat of late; although she was so conditioned to using it, no way would she address this tall, distinguished, elderly prelate as just informal ‘Tom’.MoreLess
Suddenly, she tensed, aware of a black-cassocked figure striding towards her, across the square: Father Thomas Mortimer, a fellow guest at her mother’s recent lunch party. Her immedi...ate reaction – mingled apprehension and annoyance – was hardly appropriate for such an eminent priest, so she forced her features into an expression of polite respect.
‘Helen!’ he enthused. ‘How nice to see you again! You’ve come to view the relics, I presume? The response has been phenomenal, you know.’ ‘Yes, I read about it, Father.’ The word ‘Father’ stuck in her throat of late; although she was so conditioned to using it, no way would she address this tall, distinguished, elderly prelate as just informal ‘Tom’.MoreLess
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