Second Chance (2009)
“She had window-shopped and browsed to her heart’s content.
The shops hadn’t been too crowded. She had picked and poked and compared and contrasted with ease. The joy of it. Eddie would have been driven mad if he’d been with her. Sara patted her handbag. His boxed miniature grandfather clock lay within. She’d gone to Marks & Spencer’s food hall and bought him some Florentines, his favourite treat.
She’d enjoyed a cup of coffee and a chocolate éclair in the tranquillity of Clerys’ tea-rooms. She ...liked the tea-rooms. It was a treat being served by a waitress. Sara didn’t enjoy these newfangled fast-food restaurants where you had to queue up yourself. If you were going to treat yourself … do it properly was her motto.
She sat in the bus on the way home, weary but content. They were almost at Phibsboro. It wouldn’t be long now until she was home. She noticed a man cleaning a shop window. Tomorrow was her window-cleaner’s day. A thought struck her. She had spent more than she intended when she’d got carried away in Roches’ basement and bought an enormous soft, fluffy bath sheet.MoreLess
The shops hadn’t been too crowded. She had picked and poked and compared and contrasted with ease. The joy of it. Eddie would have been driven mad if he’d been with her. Sara patted her handbag. His boxed miniature grandfather clock lay within. She’d gone to Marks & Spencer’s food hall and bought him some Florentines, his favourite treat.
She’d enjoyed a cup of coffee and a chocolate éclair in the tranquillity of Clerys’ tea-rooms. She ...liked the tea-rooms. It was a treat being served by a waitress. Sara didn’t enjoy these newfangled fast-food restaurants where you had to queue up yourself. If you were going to treat yourself … do it properly was her motto.
She sat in the bus on the way home, weary but content. They were almost at Phibsboro. It wouldn’t be long now until she was home. She noticed a man cleaning a shop window. Tomorrow was her window-cleaner’s day. A thought struck her. She had spent more than she intended when she’d got carried away in Roches’ basement and bought an enormous soft, fluffy bath sheet.MoreLess
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