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twice.’ ‘Possibly you’re right, but it hardly makes any
mind. ‘There are things that I’ll have to talk about to get the pension. Stuff I never even told you.’ His voice was barely audible, and he wouldn’t look at her.
where I let others know about the actions or movements of the British that I heard about. I didn’t tell you
she missed them terribly and asking if they could come
best man. They were like chalk and cheese. Jack was
were her friends. Their parents had always encouraged
MacIntyre her promises to love, honour, and obey her husband. They had laughed about the obey bit when they had practiced their vows at home, and Jack had said he doubted he’d manage to get her to stick by that one.
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into life back in London. I imagine it must be quite a change, but hopefully one that you are enjoying, despite the dreadful war. Thomas sends his
Austin. Life here in Dublin is busy, well, chaotic
doing, how much he was spending… Still, she reasoned,
behind her and viciously stamped on the foot of the girl
shriek. ‘Arthur! Please behave yourself!’ Elena sounded exasperated, and the boy scowled, sticking his tongue out at Isabella and Dermot. The woman looked embarrassed but said nothing further to reprimand the child. ‘Now, please tell me you’re here to stay and that you are a housekeeper and a nanny and a zoo-keeper all rolled into one?’ Elena smiled apologetically. ‘Well, I am a very experienced housekeeper, and I’ve reared our three girls and took care of the Kenefick children, so I’m no stranger to little ones.’ Isabella smiled, wanting to put the other woman at ease. ‘Well, Violet has
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you. Your son is waiting in the Palm Court. May I take your coat?’ The beautifully liveried waiter escorted Violet into the sumptuously decorated salon of The Ritz Hotel. Palm
Lillian reappeared, in a dress more suitable for a dance than a night in with her mother. ‘I’m going out.’ She picked up
to say about that.’ ‘Did you speak to Sam about me?’ Lillian asked. ‘Samuel is busy being useful and serving his country, so no, I did not bother him with trivialities.’ Violet saw a malicious gleam in her daughter’s eye. ‘Ah, precious Samuel. You always adored him. But what if I told you, Mother dear, that the company he was keeping these days was also less than
not you marry, I would suggest for your own sake you apply yourself most studiously to the task of becoming
was better than labouring, and he was excited to tell her that they would soon have a deposit saved for a place of their own. Living with Mrs O’Neill was bearable, but Eve couldn’t wait to get her own house. Her mother-in-law
the things the world was saying about Hitler were true, then he was a very nasty piece of work indeed. People escaping from occupied areas of Europe were coming back with horrific stories of people being rounded up—Jews, gypsies, and others. It was hard to imagine such a cultured and educated society as Germany being led by someone like him, but
man was willing to lay his cards on the table yet. Thomas sat back and paused, his
He was still at large, if Thomas wanted Dermot to help them find him, so that was good. Hopefully, he was on his way back to Germany. Dermot thought about warning him, but there was no way to reach him from here without alerting the whole of Kilthomand to his whereabouts. It was safer to leave him be. Dermot thought of what Thomas had said about Sam pulling strings and considered writing again, but decided against it. He would wait to hear what he had to say in response to his first letter. * * * Sam must have written by return, because six days later, Isabella entered the kitchen and handed
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returning to Ireland ever again, if I can help it. And in case you hadn’t noticed, Sam is a pilot for the
would he be in hers. No, it was a folly.
father. Violet calculated quickly. ‘Well, in that case, I wish you
suddenly. Samuel stopped on his way to the door. ‘What?’ ‘Flying, over enemy territory? Are you frightened?’ He walked back towards her and
silence, and Violet’s voice, when she spoke, was trembling. ‘I worry about you. I look up at the sky at night and worry that you are safe.’ ‘You and every mother of every
were other, better, more interesting ways of earning
understand that you and Isabella have found work with our
end of the street, all around her were the signs of war. The Blitz had been terrifying. Samuel had tried to convince her to go down to the Tube station, but she’d
searched the tin for some cake, and within moments, she had tea and he had a glass of milk. To her amazement,
it excluded farmworkers and maids, all the work coloured
children—but it still felt unreal. She had nightmares, that Jack was alive but stuck in a box under all that earth,
was proven to be a Nazi sympathiser and a former IRA ringleader, then they just might. For the time being, however, this is what you might call a solo mission on my part. I am under considerable pressure from London to deliver this agent, and all other avenues have
daughters as a bit of payback, regardless of the fact that I’m paying them. They would be only too happy to settle some old scores. Trust me, Dermot, these are
orders.’ ‘What the hell is wrong with
Dermot made would be empty—he could never hurt
You just hand over Metz, and we all carry on as before. The
here.’ Thomas did as he was told and took a gun from the glove compartment. ‘I must say, I thought you’d hide him here, but I’ve been down twice already and there was no sign of anyone. I hope
surely don’t think I would do that! I used our old code to
are going to tell me where my girls are, and you are going to order that they be released immediately. What you need to decide is if we’ll do it the hard way or the easy way. Myself and Oskar here learned well from you lot all those years ago, pulling out fingernails with plyers, water torture, beatings to within an inch of death, so we’re fairly adept at it. Now, I’m not a violent man anymore, Thomas, you know that, but you threatened my family and that changes everything. You won’t be the first Englishman I’ve killed, but then you know that, don’t you? So here’s what I’m proposing. We go to
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The shoe had disintegrated with the bullet. ‘It had better be in the good shoe,’ Oskar said with a
the post office. I need some air anyway. Kate, you’d better stay here with Lady Kenefick. The doctor is on the way, apparently. I’ll get a message to Mammy and
your parents did. We, people of my background, didn’t
when he heard himself say, ‘I love you, Bella.’
must say I am enjoying my life so much more now. Kate
woman. It’s actually been very rewarding. I’ve even got a part-time job with the council, helping those who have
asked. ‘Do, Eve, please,’
