Raking the Ashes
“I can’t remember why she came out with it, but the expression struck me at once.
‘You don’t suppose she’s pregnant?’ I whispered to Geoff as I passed him a cereal box to put back in the cupboard.
‘Who?’ ‘Frances, of course. Weren’t you listening? Minna said she has a “bump”.’ Just at that moment, Harry came back in the kitchen to pick up his radio-controlled rat. Sensing that we were having a private conversation, he hung around, so it was quite a while before Geoff picked up the topic again. ‘...Of course she wouldn’t be pregnant. Frances is far too old to start again.’ ‘Geoff, she’s barely scraped forty! And Minna is only nine. It’s perfectly possible.’ ‘Nonsense. Whose baby would she be having?’ ‘Terence’s, of course.’ ‘But they’ve split up again.’ News to me. But at that moment the notion of Frances having a ‘bump’ intrigued me far more than the fact that Geoff evidently hadn’t bothered to keep me abreast of yet another milestone in his family.MoreLess
‘You don’t suppose she’s pregnant?’ I whispered to Geoff as I passed him a cereal box to put back in the cupboard.
‘Who?’ ‘Frances, of course. Weren’t you listening? Minna said she has a “bump”.’ Just at that moment, Harry came back in the kitchen to pick up his radio-controlled rat. Sensing that we were having a private conversation, he hung around, so it was quite a while before Geoff picked up the topic again. ‘...Of course she wouldn’t be pregnant. Frances is far too old to start again.’ ‘Geoff, she’s barely scraped forty! And Minna is only nine. It’s perfectly possible.’ ‘Nonsense. Whose baby would she be having?’ ‘Terence’s, of course.’ ‘But they’ve split up again.’ News to me. But at that moment the notion of Frances having a ‘bump’ intrigued me far more than the fact that Geoff evidently hadn’t bothered to keep me abreast of yet another milestone in his family.MoreLess
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