[{"node":{"title":"Lingard107","Collections":"Chapter 11","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard107","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Summer, Suburbs","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard107","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/Lingard107_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff99\n\n\"Could you drop us off somewhere?\" asked Kevin.\n\n\"We need to go some place quiet to talk,\" said Sadie.\n\n\"O.K.\", said Mr Blake. \"I know just the place.\"\n\nKevin slumped back in his seat, eyes closed. Sadie and Mr Blake\ntalked of old pupils and teachers at the school exchanging pieces of\nnews, and he told her that he had retired the previous summer. He\nwas driving them out to one of the suburbs. The houses changed\nfrom terraced to small semi-detached with no gardens, and then to\nslightly larger ones with gardens and hedges and gates.\n\nMr Blake turned off the main road and stopped in a quiet street.\n\n\"This is my house,\" he said, indicating one with a white gate and\na laburnum tree overhanging the pavement. \"You can come in and sit\nin peace.\"\n\n\"That's greatSmashing!\" said Sadie.\n\nThey helped Kevin indoors and laid him on the settee in the sitting\nroom. It was a comfortable, tidy room, with family photographs on\nthe mantlepice and piano.\n\n\"I'm a widower,\" said Mr Blake. \"My wife died two years ago and\nmy family's grown up.\"\n\n\"So you live alone?\" said Sadie.\n\n\"Yes. Sit down, Sdaie, I'm going to make you both a cup of coffee\nand then I'm going to ring my doctor and ask if he'd mind having a\nlook at Kevin's head. He's an old friend of mine and he'll oblige\nme, I'm sure.\"\n\nKevin tried to protest but found he was too tired. Sadie sat\n","Type":"Text"}}]