More Than Meets the Eye
“Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday were her days for voluntary work.
She had arranged to take her mother to see some old friends in Monmouth. They’d been neighbours of the Greens for many years. Lorna remembered lying in bed as a child and listening to raucous laughter from downstairs after one of her parents’ dinner parties. They’d been younger then than she was now; she could imagine her dad and Mr Williams being quite risqué in their prime, and the ladies being guiltily amused in a foursome when ...they might have felt the need to be disapproving in a wider public setting.
She was shocked to see how much older the Williamses looked. Harry was walking with a stick and Enid had the beginnings of a humped back. Her hands shook quite violently as she handed round cups of coffee. Because she had known them since she’d been a small girl, Lorna found it difficult to call the old couple Harry and Enid rather than Mr and Mrs Williams. When she forced herself to do so, she heard echoes of old people’s homes and hospitals, where people were now addressed by their forenames whether it pleased them or not.MoreLess
She had arranged to take her mother to see some old friends in Monmouth. They’d been neighbours of the Greens for many years. Lorna remembered lying in bed as a child and listening to raucous laughter from downstairs after one of her parents’ dinner parties. They’d been younger then than she was now; she could imagine her dad and Mr Williams being quite risqué in their prime, and the ladies being guiltily amused in a foursome when ...they might have felt the need to be disapproving in a wider public setting.
She was shocked to see how much older the Williamses looked. Harry was walking with a stick and Enid had the beginnings of a humped back. Her hands shook quite violently as she handed round cups of coffee. Because she had known them since she’d been a small girl, Lorna found it difficult to call the old couple Harry and Enid rather than Mr and Mrs Williams. When she forced herself to do so, she heard echoes of old people’s homes and hospitals, where people were now addressed by their forenames whether it pleased them or not.MoreLess
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