[{"node":{"title":"Lingard030","Collections":"Chapter 4","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard030","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Boyfriends, Catholic","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard030","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/Lingard030_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff28\n\nShe glanced around her. The xaf customers were nearly all teenaagers\nsitting over cups of coffee and Coca-Cola. At the other side of the\nroom she saw two girls she recognised: they worked in the same store.\nAt the moment she saw them, they saw her too.\n\nThey got up and came across to her.\n\n\"Hit thereyou, Sadie. What are you doing round here?'*\nG.-W-*\n\n\"I've been up on the Cave hill.\"\n\n\"On your ownlone?\"\n\n\"No.\" She nodded towards Kevin where he stood in the queue.\n\nThey looked him over carefully and rolled their eyes in approval.\n\n\"Handsome looking fella. Where did you pick him up?\"\n\n\"I didn't pick him up. I've known him a long time.\"\n\nThey examined him again with curiosity. The girls in the shop\nliked to spend their breaks talking about their boyfriends. Sadie\nseldom joined x in for the talk bored her. They all had one thought\nin their minds: they wantedto get married as soon as possible.\n\nKevin came back carrying two plates of fish and chips. He set\nthem down on the table. Sadie\nintroduced them him reluctanlty to the\ngirls who flashed bright smiles at him, but as soon as Sadieshesaid his name\nshe could see their thoughts ticking over. Kevin McCoy. A Catholic\nname, unmistakably Catholic. Sadie stared them hard in the eyes,\ndaring them to show anything they were thinking.\n\n\"Well, we'd better be getting along. See you in the morningthe morn, Sadie.\"\n\nThey took another look at Kevin before they went out. They would\nbe waiting for her in the cloakroom in the morning bursting with\n","Type":"Text"}}]