[{"node":{"title":"Lingard036","Collections":"Chapter 5","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard036","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Business, Thieves","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard036","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/Lingard036_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff34\n\na platex.\n\n\"Sadie out too the night?\"\n\nMrs Jackson's back stiffened. \"Well, she's not in.\"\n\n\"Linda saw her on the way home.\"\n\nMrs Jackson infused, th e tea and set it on a low gas. She setplaced\ntwo cups on the draining board. \"You take milk and sugar, don't you,\nMrs Mullet?\"\n\n\"Two sugars please. Yes, Linda was saying she saw hersaw Sadie waiting on a bus.\"\n\nMrs Jackson poured the tea and gave a cap to Mrs Mullet. Then\nshe sat obwn herself and faced the television squarely. \"Would you like to\nsee the film?\"\n\n\"Not particularly. I've seen it before anyway.\"\n\nThey drank their tea and ate biscuits to the low accompanying hum\nof the television set. Mrs Jackson was bracing herself for the next\nremark.\n\n\"A I know it's none of my business, Mrs Jackson, and y but I'm\nright fond of Sadie and I wouldn't like herSadie to get into any harm -\"\n\nMrs Jackson cut her off. \"That's all right, Mrs Mullet. You\ndon't need to worry about Sadie for me. She's got her head screwed\non.\"\n\n\"There's been times when it seems to come a bit loose. Oh I'm\nnot criticising her, don't think that for a minute. You know I'm\nright fond of her and she and Linda have been as thick as thieves\nsince they were in the cradle.\"\n\nMrs Jackson s rose and turned up the volume of the television\n","Type":"Text"}}]