[{"node":{"title":"Lingard130","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard130","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"McCoy, Kate","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard130","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/Lingard130_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff122\n\nMcCoy. \"Not even our church says it's a crime.\"\n\n\"Oh I wasn't saying it's a crime,\" said Mrs MaloneKellyhastily. \"It's\njust that with tempers running highall the trouble round here and all that...\"\n\nMrs McCoy folded the shirt neatly,laid it aside, reached for another.\nShe straightened her back, putting her hand to her hip.\n\n\"Are you all right?\" asked Mrs MaloneKelly.\n\n\"Yes. Just/a bit tired.\"\n\n\"Come on ,let me do some of that for you.\"\n\nMrs McCoy protested, she did not like to sit a idle anyway, but Mrs\nMaloneKellyinsisted. She was a good-hearted woman, thought Mrs McCoy, as\nshe sat back in the armchair to take a rest. She would always come if\nyou needed her. She had only had one child, Katethree children and Kate was the youngest sot that she had\nmore time to spare than most of the other women.\n\nMrs MaloneKelly slapped the iron up and down the irsoning board. The\nclothes might be not be as smoothly pressed this time but no matter.\nMrs McCoy suddenly realised how tired she was. And she had a pain in her back.\n\n\"He's not going out with her now then,I take it?\" asked Mrs MaloneKelly\n\n\"Not as far as I know. But I don't ask him where he's going every\ntime he goes out. He's too oldx for that.\"\n\n\"Oh, of course. But I was just wondering. He doesn't see much of\nKate now. They used to be that close at one time.\"\n\n\"I wouldn't think of asking him about Kate, MaloneKelly. And I'm\nsure you'd agree that you and/I/shouldn't talk about them either.\"\nMrs McCoy gotstood up and stretchedrubbed her back. \"Do you know, I think\nI'm going to have to ask you to phone for the ambulance and take me\n","Type":"Text"}}]