The Ballymara Road
“A few hours and you will be safe, back home with your good wife. I am delighted, so I am, that all was in order and you will come again, will you? We will be looking forward to it, won’t we, Sister Celia? And be sure to give us plenty of notice now as we wouldn’t want you to travel all this way and be hungry, not even for a second, would we, Sister Celia?’ Sister Assumpta was bidding farewell to the visiting councillors and do-gooders who had called to inspect the laundry and the mother and bab...y home.
‘Watch the vans on that road, will you. The boys driving the delivery vans from the village are just demons, the way they speed along that road. They can drive at forty miles an hour, some of them, so the man who delivers the laundry from the hotel in Galway told me, and he is a good Catholic, he never misses mass and would never tell a lie, isn’t that so, Sister Celia?’ And the car doors slammed. One. After. The. Other.
At the sound of the car engine starting up, she waved to the retreating boot of a Ford Cortina.MoreLess
‘Watch the vans on that road, will you. The boys driving the delivery vans from the village are just demons, the way they speed along that road. They can drive at forty miles an hour, some of them, so the man who delivers the laundry from the hotel in Galway told me, and he is a good Catholic, he never misses mass and would never tell a lie, isn’t that so, Sister Celia?’ And the car doors slammed. One. After. The. Other.
At the sound of the car engine starting up, she waved to the retreating boot of a Ford Cortina.MoreLess
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