Above the field where the children played a lark sang, shrilly and sweetly, climbing high into the summer air. The children’s voices lifted, laughing. Sally’s thoughts slipped for a moment to the memory of a small girl abandoned to the London streets by a mother who had been unable to face the bitter fight for survival; a child who sometimes now seemed so remote, so very far removed, that it was difficult to remember the depths of her fears, the wretchedness of that precarious existence.
‘Sally? You will come? You will join us?’
‘Course I will. You knew I would.’
Fiona jumped up, drawing Sally after her, slipping an arm about her waist. ‘Bless you! Now, listen – there’s a meeting tomorrow, over in Bradford – Eddie’s set it up for us.’ She grinned at the lift of Sally’s head. ‘Oh, yes – he knew you’d come, too. Anyway, the problem is this; we’re meeting some opposition from the diehards in the local community – well, we would, wouldn’t we?’
They strolled into the sunshine, Fiona still talking excitedly.
In the buttercup field beyond the ha-ha Philippa, catching sight of her mother, waved energetically before diving, with more vigour than elegance, back into the golden sea of flowers in pursuit of the shrieking Louise.
Sally stood for a moment, watching them. Fiona, smiling, fell to friendly silence.
Above them the lark soared, singing.
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