[{"node":{"title":"Lingard002","Collections":"Chapter 1","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard002","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Brede, Tommy, School","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard002","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Lingard002_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff2\n\nby reasons, especially her mother's.\n\nThey walked side by side to a coffee bar without talking. They felt\na little awkward walking together but once inside the cafe, seated\nacross a table from one another, their tongues broke free again.\n\n\"How's Brede?\" she asked.\n\n\"How's Tommy?\" he asked at the same time, and they laughed.\n\n\"3rede's fine,\" he said. \"She's working as a nursery nurse.\"\n\n\"She always was soft on kids, wasn't she? Tommy's in the yard\napprenticed as a welder. \"\n\nXThey were silent for a moment, Sadie thinking of Kevin's sister Brede and\nKevin of Sadie's brother Tommy as each had been three years ago. They had all\nbeen at school still then., different schools. They had started as enemies, had even\nfought with stones and fists; then for x a while they had been friends\nand then theybut eventually had drifted apart because of the difficulties of meeting.\n\n\"And you, Sadie, what are you doing?\"\n\n\"Me?\" She shook her long fair hair back over x her shoulder in a gesture that he remembered. \"Well,\nfirst I went into an office - \" she wrinkled her nose* and then\nI got a job in a linen mill...\"\n\nHe laughed. \"You always were x a restless onex !\"\"\n\n\"Look who's talking!\" They were used to sparring with one\nanother; it came back to them easily.   Sadie settled back completely\nat ease. It was as if the three years between had never been.\n\n\"I've been holding down a steady had the same job since the day I left school,\"\nhe said. \"So put that in your pipe and smoke it! there!\"\n\n\"Is that right now? so?\"\n","Type":"Text"}}]