Light a Penny Candle
“‘It’s not as if she had any reason to wait about, Mam.’ No indeed, Eileen had agreed. ‘And, Lord knows, there’s plenty of money in that house, a nurse could come home with her for three months like the Grays have whenever a child is born. It can’t be the money or anything.’ She found Mam unresponsive. ‘Not of course that it’s my business or anything. It’s not the sort of thing you feel you should bring up talking to someone … even your own sister. You know, you never like to say anything.’ ‘Oh ...I’m glad to hear that,’ Mam had said.
‘It’s just that Brendan’s mother was asking me yesterday was there no sign of a baby and I didn’t know what to say to her.’ Mam had looked up suddenly and with a flash of bad temper she had shouted, ‘Why don’t you tell old Ma Daly to go and take a running jump at herself all the way down the road to the lake and right into it!’ ‘Mam!’ Maureen had cried in shock.
‘I’m sorry, it’s the time of life.MoreLess
‘It’s just that Brendan’s mother was asking me yesterday was there no sign of a baby and I didn’t know what to say to her.’ Mam had looked up suddenly and with a flash of bad temper she had shouted, ‘Why don’t you tell old Ma Daly to go and take a running jump at herself all the way down the road to the lake and right into it!’ ‘Mam!’ Maureen had cried in shock.
‘I’m sorry, it’s the time of life.MoreLess
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