September Starlings
“We learned quickly how to attract each other’s attention by tapping on the party wall with a shoe. When I look back on some of our acrobatic displays, I think it must be by the grace of God that we are still alive, my cousin Anne and I.
‘I can lean out further than you can.’ ‘Go on, then.’ ‘And if I kneel on the window-sill and grab the curtains, my top half dangles right down the wall.’ ‘Yes, but I’ve had both my legs hanging out, all the way up to the waist, too.’ ‘That’s a lie. I saw the edg...e of your knickers, but only just. You were never a long way out.’ ‘I was.’ ‘You weren’t.’ And so on. We were daring in those days. Daring, foolish and naughty, but it was fun. The sad thing was that we could not reach one another, were unable to touch, hold hands and whisper secrets. Secrets from the grown-up world were our speciality. If we had gathered no real ones, then we made them up as we went along, each fully aware of when the other was lying. It didn’t matter whether our words embraced truth or fiction – just the fact that we were communicating was enough to satisfy us.MoreLess
‘I can lean out further than you can.’ ‘Go on, then.’ ‘And if I kneel on the window-sill and grab the curtains, my top half dangles right down the wall.’ ‘Yes, but I’ve had both my legs hanging out, all the way up to the waist, too.’ ‘That’s a lie. I saw the edg...e of your knickers, but only just. You were never a long way out.’ ‘I was.’ ‘You weren’t.’ And so on. We were daring in those days. Daring, foolish and naughty, but it was fun. The sad thing was that we could not reach one another, were unable to touch, hold hands and whisper secrets. Secrets from the grown-up world were our speciality. If we had gathered no real ones, then we made them up as we went along, each fully aware of when the other was lying. It didn’t matter whether our words embraced truth or fiction – just the fact that we were communicating was enough to satisfy us.MoreLess
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