But he could add nothing to the tale. This odd outcome disappointed and humiliated them. that is…. But he could add nothing to the tale. They shocked him too. They shocked him too. ‘Save that love, we just drove past t’Grange. Jake the apprentice was there with his new young girlfriend, she appeared to Gary to be a sweet innocent child. Darren stared open mouthed at Gary and shook his head. ‘’ow come?’
‘Remember when he went over’t top to get them machine guns, when we was pinned down.’
Gary had repressed the memory. ‘Hang on it’s nearly time for’t news, won’t be a sec.’ Gary’s brother disappeared from the room and returned a few minutes later with a portable television that he perched precariously on the side of the new cot and tuned, noisily. She’s havin’ her comeuppance she is. It was the Soper girls, still on the bobsled ride of their sexual lives, they addressed Gary in a manner they had not the week before, not that he could remember.
