Poverty Castle (2011)
“They had said they would walk home unless it was raining heavily. So it was half past four before their parents saw them again.
To Mama and Papa’s many questions they were not forthcoming. Their taciturnity this time was noticeably different from that of the morning. It had deeper reasons not so easily diagnosed. Even Rebecca was affected. Exhausted by the day’s events she consented to lie down for a little while before Diana’s bus was due. When Mama at her bedside asked how she had got on at s...chool she pretended to be sleepier than she really was. Mama was upset. She knew that Rebecca loved and needed her, and yet here she was, not yet five, keeping secrets from her: not secrets really, but discoveries that she and her sisters had made that day, about themselves and other people, which they would want to examine closely before revealing, if they ever did reveal them. Mama’s own mother had warned her: ‘They’ll form a society of which you’ll never be a member, Margaret. Weans instinctively gang up against adults as soon as they’re old enough to know that adults are not always to be trusted.’ Meanwhile in the living-room Papa questioned the twins and Rowena.MoreLess
To Mama and Papa’s many questions they were not forthcoming. Their taciturnity this time was noticeably different from that of the morning. It had deeper reasons not so easily diagnosed. Even Rebecca was affected. Exhausted by the day’s events she consented to lie down for a little while before Diana’s bus was due. When Mama at her bedside asked how she had got on at s...chool she pretended to be sleepier than she really was. Mama was upset. She knew that Rebecca loved and needed her, and yet here she was, not yet five, keeping secrets from her: not secrets really, but discoveries that she and her sisters had made that day, about themselves and other people, which they would want to examine closely before revealing, if they ever did reveal them. Mama’s own mother had warned her: ‘They’ll form a society of which you’ll never be a member, Margaret. Weans instinctively gang up against adults as soon as they’re old enough to know that adults are not always to be trusted.’ Meanwhile in the living-room Papa questioned the twins and Rowena.MoreLess
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