Touched (2014)
“Jennifer offered to take baby Caroline to Mrs Pollard’s. Rowena watched her as she darted all the way round the back to the far staircase to fetch Caroline’s sun bonnet from her room. Rosemary stayed at home to draw, Rowena cleared up, and the boy was behind her again. Boy, she wondered? Why had she thought there was a boy? Bob was running around by himself, noticeably energetic in the garden, but she had felt something like a glimmer or a lash on the side of her eye: a knowledge that someone w...as there. It was as though the air was disturbed. She drew herself up and dismissed it quite strictly, and Jennifer dashed back into the room with Caroline’s little mint-coloured sun bonnet and set off with the perambulator.
Eva had shown Jennifer a new track she had found across the fields behind the stream that they could use when the weather was hot and the mud had all dried, though baby Caroline bounced up and down on groaning springs, asleep or crying. It was faster than going by the lanes round the back of the village.MoreLess
Eva had shown Jennifer a new track she had found across the fields behind the stream that they could use when the weather was hot and the mud had all dried, though baby Caroline bounced up and down on groaning springs, asleep or crying. It was faster than going by the lanes round the back of the village.MoreLess
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