{"nodes":[{"node":{"title":"Lingard034","Collections":"Chapter 5","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard034","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Mullet, Television","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard034","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/Lingard034_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff32\n\nCHAPTER FIVE\n\nMrs Jackson was watching a film on television so she did not hear\nMrs Mullet coming inlto the house until she opened the kitchen\ndoor\n\n\"I called out,\" she said Mrs Mullet \"but you didn't hear me.\"\n\n\"I was watching the telly,\" said Mrs Jackson unnecessarily, her\neyes still on it. The film had reached an exciting point andsk\nshe was unwilling to put if off for the sake of Mrs Mullet whom\nshe was friendly enough with at times, but at others could have\nshe saw every day of her life. There were times when\nshe wished the womaan lived on the far side of Belfast. She had the\nlongest tongue in the street and seemed to have little else to do\nall day but lean against her door jamb and wait for passers-by towith\nexchangewhom she could trade bits of news. The news nearly always tended to be rumours ,\nand usually scandalous. Mrs Mullet was frequently declaring herself\nhorrified.\n\nShe stood by their kitchen door now, in her high spiky-heeled\nshoes, of the kind that ceased to be fashionable years ago. It was\nnot that Mrs Jackson was fashionable herself, but Mrs Mullet liked\nto pride herself on her clothes sense.\n\n\"Can II'll take the weight off me feet?\" she said. \"Me legs are\nkilling me the day. I've never been off the go.\"\n\n\"Sit down for a minute then.\" Mrs Jackson got up and turned\ndown the sound of the television to a low murmur, but kept the picture\nas it was.\n\nMrs Mullet collapsed into Mr McCoy's xaJackson's armchair and kicked off\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"879"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard035","Collections":"Chapter 5","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard035","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Kids, Seventeen","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard035","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/Lingard035_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff33\n\nher shoes. \"That's better.\"\n\nMrs Jackson eyed her suspiciously. Mrs M She had either come to\ngossip, or to borrow. A quarter pound of tea here, and a couple of\neggs there. She lived off the street, Mrs Jackson had often remarked\nto her husband; it was no wonder she could forever be affording to\nbuy herself new clothes for herself and Linda. She came often\nthese days to talk about Tommy and Linda. She liked Tommy, thought\nhe was a nice steady lad, and was hoping for a match. Mrs Jackson\nwas hoping that Tommy would have more sense.\n\n\"Tommy\u2019s out with Linda tonight then,\" said Mrs Mullet. Mrs\nJackson was not looking at her: she was watching the moving figures\non the screen. \u2019\"They seem right fond of hereach other.\u201d\n\n\"They're very young.\"\n\n\"Kids are getting married younger all the time.\"\n\nMrs Jackson looked at her now. \"More fool theythem!\"\n\n\"Oh,come now, Mrs Jackson, what a thing to say.\u2019 Why shouldn\u2019t\nthey if that's what they want.\u201d\n\n\"They want to see a bit of life first instead of getting tied down to\na wife and a couple of kids.\u201d\n\nMrs Mullet pursed her lips. \"I married at seventeen and I can't\nsay I've ever regretted it.\u201d\n\n\"Are you wanting a cup of tea?\u201d asked Mrs Jackson, determined\nnot to have no more of the subject.\n\n\"Wouldn't say no.\u201d\n\nMrs Jackson put on the kettle and laid out a few biscuits on\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"880"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard036","Collections":"Chapter 5","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard036","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Business, Thieves","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard036","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/Lingard036_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff34\n\na platex.\n\n\"Sadie out too the night?\"\n\nMrs Jackson's back stiffened. \"Well, she's not in.\"\n\n\"Linda saw her on the way home.\"\n\nMrs Jackson infused, th e tea and set it on a low gas. She setplaced\ntwo cups on the draining board. \"You take milk and sugar, don't you,\nMrs Mullet?\"\n\n\"Two sugars please. Yes, Linda was saying she saw hersaw Sadie waiting on a bus.\"\n\nMrs Jackson poured the tea and gave a cap to Mrs Mullet. Then\nshe sat obwn herself and faced the television squarely. \"Would you like to\nsee the film?\"\n\n\"Not particularly. I've seen it before anyway.\"\n\nThey drank their tea and ate biscuits to the low accompanying hum\nof the television set. Mrs Jackson was bracing herself for the next\nremark.\n\n\"A I know it's none of my business, Mrs Jackson, and y but I'm\nright fond of Sadie and I wouldn't like herSadie to get into any harm -\"\n\nMrs Jackson cut her off. \"That's all right, Mrs Mullet. You\ndon't need to worry about Sadie for me. She's got her head screwed\non.\"\n\n\"There's been times when it seems to come a bit loose. Oh I'm\nnot criticising her, don't think that for a minute. You know I'm\nright fond of her and she and Linda have been as thick as thieves\nsince they were in the cradle.\"\n\nMrs Jackson s rose and turned up the volume of the television\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"881"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard037","Collections":"Chapter 5","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard037","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Western, Gossip","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard037","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/Lingard037_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff35\n\nThe film was a Western and the sound of gunshots and galloping hooves\ndrowned out the voice of Mrs Mullet.\n\nThe doer scraped open and Mr Jackson put his head round it. \"I'm\nback, Aggie.O Oh hello there, Mrs Mullet, how are you?\"\n\n\"I' Not so bad.\"\n\n\"You'll be wanting your supper?\" Mrs Jackson said to her husband.\n\n\"Could do with a cup of tea at any rate. Your husband's home\nfrom the meeting the now, Mrs Mullet. Looking for his supper too, I bet.\"sup>\nI'll be bound.\"\n\n\"You men never think of anything but your stomachs!\" Mrs Mullet\ngot y up. \"I'll be seeing you.\"\n\nShe went out.\n\nMrs Jackson tunred the television sound right down. \"That woman\ngives me the bokes!dry bokes!\n\nMr Jackson laughed and rubbed his hands together. He had had a\npint of Guinness on the way back from the meeting and was in good form.\n\"Aggie, what a thing to say! I heard you telling Sadie off the\nother day for using the words.\"\n\n\"I'd tell her off if she was here right now. The trouble she\ngets us in to! She's always causing talk in this street, Jim,\nand it's time she was stopping it. I'm sick of that Mullet woman\ncoming over here to tell me the latest gossip about Sadie.\"\n\n\"Ah, Sadie's all rightx.\"\n\n\"Hanging about with a Mick? Do you not mind that?\"\n\nMr Jackson's face sobered. \"I mind that all right. But there may\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"882"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard038","Collections":"Chapter 5","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard038","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Infiltrators, Protestant","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard038","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/Lingard038_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff36\n\nbe nothing to it. We've only got Linda's word for it and I wouldn't\ntake all she said asher word for gospel\"\n\nLinda's mother closed the front door behind her after hearing\nthe first part of the Jacksons' conversation. So ould woman Jackson\nwas sick of her coming over,was she? Mrs Mullet tossed her head.\nShe'd not let that pass. She would see to it that the street knew\nwhat was going on and v/ould have no qualms about it. There was\nnothing wrong in telling the truth, and they had to protect themselves\nfrom Catholic infiltrators. That's why their men went to their\nlodges and walked in parades: they were defending their faith.\nxxxxxxxxxShe crossed the street. There was no one in sight\nexcept for four small boys playing at soldiers. They were wearing\nkhaki anoraks and soldiers berets that they had filched somewhere.\nShe went in to her own house to tell the story to Mr Mullet. He\nwas reading the greyhound racing results in the evening paper and\nseemed more interested in them than in the treachery of Mrs Jackson.\n\n\"She's a decent enough woman,\" was all he said.\n\n\"Honest\"My Gawd,you men! What would you say if our Linda was walking\nout with a Mick?\"\n\n\"But she's not, is she?X\" he said mildly, not even lifting his\nhead. \"Tommy's a good Protestant even if he doesn't belong to the\nlodge.\"\n\nMrs Mullet returned to the doorway where she stood watching the\nlight failing over the street. The only person she was saw was old Granny\nMcEvoy, wrapped in her grey shawl, out looking for her cat. But\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"883"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard039","Collections":"Chapter 5","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard039","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Volunteer, Imagination","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard039","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/Lingard039_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff37\n\nGranny McEvoy was almost stone deaf and got the whole story wrong so\nMrs Mullet gave up in despair. She had to put up with ten minutes\nof the old woman telling her how her man had fought for the Ulster Volunteers\nwith the Specials at the time of the partitionof Ireland and escaped death\nby inches.SheMrs Mullet had heard the story so often that she could have\nretold it backwards.\n\n\"He was a real patriot,\" said Granny, gathering her shawl around k\nher. \"And now you're telling me we've got Micks living in this\nstreet.?\"\n\n\"No, no, Granny, away ye go and get your cat. That wasn't what\nI was saying at all.\"\n\nGranny shuffled off calling for the cat. Mrs Mullet looked up the\nstreet thinking it was time that Tommy and Linda were coming home.\nThe pictures would have finsihed half an hour ago at least.\n\nAfterTommy and Linda came out of the cinema they went towere sitting in a cafe\nand drinking coffee. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Linda had enjoyed the\nfilm, she had had a good cry at one point, but Tommy had been bored.\nHe supposed that i was part of the price you had to pay when you took\na girl out. He liked taking Linda out. She could be very soft and\nsweet, and it was nice to sit in the cimema holding her hand.\n\n\"Here's Steve,\" said Linda.\n\nSteve was Tommy's friend from schooldays. He was rather keen on\nSadie but she said he bored her, he had no imagination. It was seldom\nthat she went out more than twice with any boy.\n\n\"Can I join you?\" said Steve\n\n\"Sure.\" Tommy pulled up a chair.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"884"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard040","Collections":"Chapter 5","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard040","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Flute, Ulster, British","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard040","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/Lingard040_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff38\n\nSteve sat down.\n\n\"We've been to the pictures,\" said Linda.\n\n\"Guess where I've been?\" said Steve to Tommy. \"I've joined the\nLodge.\"\n\nTommy said nothing.\n\n\"I keep telling Tommy he ought to join,\" said Linda. \"After all\nmost of the men round here belong. I'd like to see him walking on\nthe 'Twelfth'\"\n\nTommy shrugged.\n\n\"Why don't you, Tommy?\" said Steve. \"You could still play in the\nband. \"\n\nTommy had once wanted to play the flute in the Junior Pipe band,\nbut that was before the fight in which Brede had almost been killed.\nThat night when they thought she might die he had decided not to\nwalk in the Orange parade. Both Linda and Steve knew that, though\nneither could understand it, and he could not quite explain it. It\nwas not as if he had changed his allegiance: he would never do that.\nAs far as he was concerned, Ulster w must stay British and Protestant.\n\n\"Sure it's good crack apart from anything else,\" said Steve.\n\n\"I like the Twelfth,\" said Linda. \"The bands playing and all\nthat.\u00bb\n\n\"I think we should be getting home, Linda,\"  said Tommy.\n\n\"You're a stubborn a one, aren't you?\" said Linda.\n\n\"I think perhaps he isn't much of a Loyalist when it comes to\nthe bit,\" said Steve. \"There's times when you have to stand up and\nbe counted.\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"885"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard041","Collections":"Chapter 5","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard041","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Orange Order, Protestants","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard041","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/Lingard041_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff39\n\nTommy stood up.and pushed back his chair.  \"Are you coming, Linda?\"\n\nShe followed him out. \"You don\u2019t even speak backup for yourself,\"\nshe said with annoyance.\n\n\"I don\u2019t see why I have toshould. Steve doesn't have to tell me what\nto do.\"\n\n\"But the other men won't like youit Tommy, if you don't join in\nwith them.\"\n\n\"Why should I care about that? Anyway, not everybody belongs\nto the Orange Order just because they're Protestants. Lots of lads\nin the yard don't.\"\n\n\"But most of the men in the street do.\"\n\n\"LeaveForget it, Linda,\" he said quietly.\n\n\"OhhAll right\" She sighed.\n\nHe saw Sadie and Kevin ahead before Linda did. For a minute\nhe thought of wheeling Linda about and taking her back along the road\nbut it was too late. TShe had seen them too.\n\n\"Isn't that Sadie?\" she said excitedly.\n\nSadie and Kevin were standing at the end of the street. They\nturned as Tommy and Linda approached.\n\n\"Hello, you two.\" Sadie's voice was loud and defiant.\n\n\"Hello, Tommy,\" sai Kevin spoke more quietly.\n\n\"Hello, Kevin.\"\n\nFor a moment there was silence. Tommy and Kevin looked at one\nanother, each wishing to spokespeak, h not knowing what to say.\n\n\"How've you been?\" asked Kevin at last.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"886"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard042","Collections":"Chapter 5","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard042","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Mullet, Devil","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard042","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/Lingard042_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff40\n\n\"Fine. \"\n\nThere was a further silence and then Tommy said,\"How\u2019s Brede?\"\n\n\"O.K.\"\n\n\"Tell her I was asking afterfor her.\"\n\n\"I will.\" Kevin scuffed his foot against the edge of the kerb.\n\"Well, I suppose I'd better be going. Nice to see you again, Tommy.\"\nHe nodded at Linda. \"Good night, Sadie.\"\n\n\"Good night, Kevin.\" said Sadie\n\nHe walked quickly away.\n\n\"He'd need to walk fast in case any of our boys goet the hold of\nhim,\" said Linda.\n\n\"You shut up, Linda Mullet,\" said Sadie.\n\n\"hy Why should I shut Up?\" demanded Linda.\n\n\"Stop itPack it in, both of you,\" said Tommy.\n\n\"You don't seem to care that your sister's been consorting with a\nMickey.\" Linda tossed her head. Tommy knew he had nettled her by\nsending his regards to Brede.\n\n\"Let's go home, \" he said. They began to walkAs they came down the street, they\nsaw the shape of Mrs Mullet outlined in her lit doorway. \"And don't\nyou say anything to your motherMa, Linda.\"\n\n\"I'll say what I like.\"\n\n\"If Iyou do you won't see me again.\"\n\n\"That'll gi make her pausestop to think,\" said Sadie. \"She doesn't\nwant to lose hold of you now that she's got her claws into you.\"\n\nLinda flew at Sadie. Tommy separated them. \"For heaven's sake,\ncut it out!\" He cursed Sadie under his breath. She had the devil\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"887"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard043","Collections":"Chapter 5","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard043","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Aggressive, Tirade","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard043","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/Lingard043_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff41\n\nin her at times.\n\nMrs Mullet crossed the street. \"What's going on here?\"\n\n\"Nothing, Mrs Mullet,\" said Tommy.\n\n\"We were just fooling aroundcoddin', Mrs Mullet,\" said Sadie with false\nsweetness in her voice.\n\nLinda was quiet. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx\n\nAre you wanting to come in forWhat about coming in. Would you like a cup of tea?\" asked Mrs\nMullet. \"I've one on the gas now.\"\n\n\"No thanks,\" said Tommy. \"I've to be up for my work in the morning.\"\n\n\"See you tomorrow, Tommy?\" said Linda.\n\n\"AyeAye. Good night.\"\n\nHe and Sadie left Linda and her mother. When they heard the\nMullets' door shut, Sadie said, \"There's times when I could spit in that woman's eye.\nat times. And what you see in Linda I'll never know]\"\n\n\"Oh give over, Sadie,\" said Tommy wearily, feeling he had had\nenough of women for one day. \"Think You'd think you might have\nlearned it's better to keep your motuhuthshut. at times\"\n\n\"Easier you mean. Not the same thing\"You're all for a quiet\nlife.\"\n\n\"You're in a real aggressive mood.\"\n\nShe shrugged and then said, \"I'm getting ready for the storm.\nI've no doubt that Linda has brought the news home about Kevin and\nme.\"\n\nThe storm broke as soon as they came into the kitchen. Sadie\nstood with her head up listening to her mother's tirnade. At the end\nof it she said, \"All I've done is go for a walk with aboy.\"\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"888"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard044","Collections":"Chapter 5","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard044","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Police, Headstrong","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard044","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/Lingard044_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff42\n\n\"All?\" said her mother.\n\n\"You're not to see him again, do you hear?\" said her father.\n\n\"I'll see him if I want to.\" Sadie turned and opened the kitchen\ndoor.\n\n\"Come, you back here,\" roared her father.\n\nShe hesitated. Mr Jackson walked across to her. He put his hands\non her shoulder.\n\n\"You'll do what I tell you as long as you're living under my roof.\"\n\n\"I don't have to stay under your roof. I'm sixteen, going on 17 I can go if\nI want to. You can't get the police to bring me back.\"\n\nMrs Jackson caught iat her breath. Sadie eased herself out of her\nfather's grasp and walked up the stairs. He made to follow her\nbut his wife said quietly,\"Let her be, Jim. She's headstrong, you'll\nonly turn her against you.\"\n\nTommy closedshut the door. His mother sniffed and wiped her eyes with\nthe back of her hand.\n\n\"That girl needs taught a lesson,\" said Mr Jackson. Tommy had\nnever seen him so angry.\n\n\"I don';'t think there's anything into it, dDa,\" he said Tommy. \"She just\nmet Kevin by chance.\"\n\n\"But what's she going to do now, that's what I'd like to know,\" said\nhis mother. \"I hope she won't see him again. You go on a up and talk to her, Tommy. Maybe She'll often\nlisten to you.\" ,\n\nTommy went up the narrow staircasefound Sadie was sitting on her bed.\nHe closed the door of her room and sat down beside her.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"889"}},{"node":{"title":"Lingard045","Collections":"Chapter 5","Contributor":"Lingard Estate","Coverage":"1972","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Thursday, March 10, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Lingard045","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Trouble, Infectious","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/lingard045","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/Lingard045_1.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff43\n\n\"Don't do anything rashstupid Sadie.\"\n\n\"What are you trying to say?\"\n\n\"I don't think you should see Kevin again.\"\n\n\"That's up to me, isn't it?\"\n\n\"Look, you know that I like Kevin. He's a nice fellow but if you\nstart to go out with him it'll just lead to trouble. Look how much\nthere's been already.\"\n\nSadie got up and walked over to the window. She opened it and\nleaned out. \"I'm sick of this street and all the people in it. I'm\ngoing to make up my own mind. There was a time when you agreed,\nTommy. We spent some good days together, the four of us, didn't\nwe?\"\n\nHe stirred uneasily. \"But it became difficult ,didn't it? We\nalways had to slip away, pretend we were going somewhere else.\nWe had to give it up.\"\n\n\"Perhaps we gave up too easily.\" Her voice was quiet now, all\naggression gone from it.\n\n\"You're not going to change anything by going out with Kevin McCoy.\"\n\nHe left her still leaning out of the window looking down on the s\nstreet. She stayed there for a long time, with her elbows on the\nsill, thinking of Kevin s dark eyes and infectious laugh. The thought\nof him stayed with her whilst she preparedgot ready for bed and eventually fell asleep.\n","Type":"Text","Author":"Joan Lingard","Updated date":"Tuesday, September 6, 2016 - 10:48","Nid":"890"}}]}