In Dublin's Fair City
“The irony of this was not lost on me. It was on this very ship that I had fled from Liverpool less than two years ago. Only that time I had been down in the hold, battened down and crammed in with all those poor wretches in steerage. This time I was to have a second-class cabin to myself. I was moving up in the world.
Now that the trip was actually becoming a reality, I couldn’t help feeling excited as well as apprehensive. Going home, the words whispered in my head. And not going home a fa...ilure, but as a successful businesswoman on an assignment. I’d have dearly liked to travel out to county Mayo to visit my family and let them see that I hadn’t come to a bad end after all, but that would have been tempting providence too much.
Sid and Gus came over to help me pack, offering to lend me everything from clothes to reading matter for the journey.
“You two have already given me more than enough,” I said. “I’ll do just fine with the clothes I already have.MoreLess
Now that the trip was actually becoming a reality, I couldn’t help feeling excited as well as apprehensive. Going home, the words whispered in my head. And not going home a fa...ilure, but as a successful businesswoman on an assignment. I’d have dearly liked to travel out to county Mayo to visit my family and let them see that I hadn’t come to a bad end after all, but that would have been tempting providence too much.
Sid and Gus came over to help me pack, offering to lend me everything from clothes to reading matter for the journey.
“You two have already given me more than enough,” I said. “I’ll do just fine with the clothes I already have.MoreLess
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