[{"node":{"title":"Lingard137","Collections":"Chapter 14","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard137","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Boyfriends, Mullet","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard137","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/Lingard137_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff129\n\n\"Haven't seen you for ages,\" said the man as he set the cup on\nthe counter. \"Thought you'd deserted me.\"\n\n\"I've Bbeen busy\" said Sadie.\n\nshe took the coffee andSadie carried ither coffee to a table. Linda and Steve\ngot up and came across to her.\n\n\"Mind if we join you?\" asked Linda.\n\nSadie shrugged.\n\nThey sat down.\n\n\"Not out with your Mick boyfriends the night?\" said Linda, taking\na t/srand of hair and twirling it round one finger.\n\nSadie eyed her warily. She was glad that Tommy had at last seen\nthe light and given her up but she knew that Linda blamed her for\nit, and not Tommy.\n\n\"You needn't pretend you don't know h who we're talking about,\"\nsaid Linda.\n\n\"I've nothing to talk to you about, Linda Mullet.\" Sadie pushed\nback her chair.\n\n\"Not so fast,\" said Steve, putting/out his arm to block her path.\n\"There's some of us round here don't like the company you keep.\"\n\n\"You can lump it then,\" snapped Sadie.\n\n\"I don't think that's a very nice attitude to take,\" said Steve,\nwith an unpleasanta nasty smile.\n\n\"And I don't like anyone telling me what to do.\" Excuse me.\"\n\nSteve did not move his arm. He continued to stare at her, daring\nher to push him. The stksxxtxs proprietor lifted the lid of his counter\n","Type":"Text"}}]