[{"node":{"title":"Lingard098","Collections":"Chapter 10","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard098","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Proud, Afraid","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard098","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/Lingard098_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff90\n\n\"No. But - \"\n\n\"Then don't see him again. Please don't see him again,\" Brede\npleaded.\n\n\"You mean not even tonight?# Let him wait for there and me not\ncome... He'd think I'd stood him up.\"\n\n\"Sadie, it might be best. He's too proud to try to see you again\nif you don't see him. I know it's hard but it would be easier for\nhim if he thought you'd given in. After all, he was beaten up.\"\n\nIt seemedwas very quiet in the cafe. The proprietor had comegone through\nto the back room. The sound of the traffic from the street was\ncuriously distant and remote. Sadie looked into Brede's pleading,\nanxious eyes, eyes the same colour as her brother's,dark brown,\nflecked with lighter specks. \"I know it's hard,\" Brede repeated.\nSadie felt a lump in her throat like a boil that was threatening\nto burst at any foment.\n\n\"I don't know, Brede, I don't know...\" I don't know anything at\nall, thought Sadie, I don't seem to know anything. I want to see\nKevin and he wants to see me and all these people are trying to get\nbetween us. Everything in life had seemed straight-forward before:\nthere had been chocices but she had never been afraid to choose\nand to choose what she felt was right. What was right here: to\ngive in to Brian Rafferty and his friends and Linda Mullet and her\nfamily and all the restothers, or to do what she wanted to do? It\ndidn't seem much to ask, to want to walk by the river to climb a\nhill with someone you liked\n","Type":"Text"}}]