[{"node":{"title":"Lingard089","Collections":"Chapter 10","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard089","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Children, Sunday","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard089","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/Lingard089_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff82\n\nCHAPTER TEN\n\nBrede cleared up sthe mess of sand and water, put away a jigsaw, sorted\nout a jumble of toys. End of the day jobs. Not many children were\nleft in the nursery now. Mothers had been coming in and out for\nthe last half hour collecting their children. Brede kept an eye\non the clock hoping that everyone would come on time and she would\nnot be kept late. There were usually one or two mothers who rushed\nin at the last possible moment full ofindignantly spilling out tales andof delayed buses or being kept late at work.\n\n\"Anything the matterwrong Brede?\" asked the matron.\n\nBrede looked up, startled, from where she knelt on the floor\namongst the toys.\n\n\"Are you all right, Brede?\"\n\n\"Yes.\" Brede pushed a strand of hair from her eyes.\n\n\"You've looked very troubled all day. Are you sure? Anything\nwrong at home?\"\n\n\"Well...\"\n\n\"Is it your mother? She must be getting near her time. Would you\nlike to get away now. I'll finsih off for you.\"\n\nBrede thanked her, gratefully. She went up to the cloakroom and\ntook off her overall. There would still be time for her to get\nacross the town to the department store where Sadie worked.\n\nShe had to wait for a bus and when it came it seemed to travel like\na snail out for a Sunday stroll. The shop would shut at six, she\nhoped, not before. She must catch Sadie before she left.\n\nShe alighted at the City Hall and ran through the crowds to the\n","Type":"Text"}}]