The Carpenter's Children
“‘You can always tell Yeomans’ bacon from any other, his pigs are properly looked after.’‘Don’t call me “Mother”, you know I don’t like it. And I haven’t put the mustard pot out,’ she said, getting up and going to the cupboard. ‘I’d better mix some fresh.’Tom sighed. Her reaction was fairly typical these days, he thought, no matter how hard he tried to sound more cheerful than he felt.‘Little did we know this time last year that all the children would be leaving us,’ she said as she sat down aga...in, and Tom nodded, knowing that it was Ernest she missed most, her son who was in Turkey with a second landing of troops on the Gallipoli Peninsula, four months after the costly April fiasco, from which lessons had been learnt, so they said. Tom was at a loss to know how to encourage her. At fifty Violet was still a handsome woman, though the anxieties of the past year had etched a network of fine lines around her eyes, and her mouth drooped when in repose.
‘Ah, but Isabel’s a happily married woman, and our naughty little Grace is doing good work at the manor,’ he reminded her.MoreLess
‘Ah, but Isabel’s a happily married woman, and our naughty little Grace is doing good work at the manor,’ he reminded her.MoreLess
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