My mother has a way of summing things up. She never liked Law much but she liked the idea of me having a man and getting on with life. Well he’s a taker and you’re a giver I hope it works out, was all she said after she met him. Give and take were just words to me at the time. I had not been in love before. It was like a wheel rolling downhill. But early this morning while mother slept and I was downstairs reading the part in Wuthering Heights where Heathcliff clings at the lattice in the storm sobbing Come in! Come in! to the ghost of his heart’s darling, I fell on my knees on the rug and sobbed too. She knows how to hang puppies, that Emily.
Posted on: Sat, 28 Sep 2013 00:57:32 +0000