Anne Bennett - Walking Back to Happiness

The supervisor looked at her over the top of the glasses people said she just wore for effect. Hannah had had little dealings with her since the day she’d been interviewed for the job. She hadn’t liked her manner then and she didn’t like it any better now.

Miss Henderson was thin, not just slim, stick thin, and she wore suits with fitted jackets to emphasise her shape. Everything about her was thin; her long face, her nose, her lips, even her voice had a thin snap to it.

Beside her, Hannah felt big and ungainly. But she raised her head when Miss Henderson said disdainfully, ‘You’ve been putting on weight lately, Miss Delaney?’

‘Yes, Miss Henderson.’

‘Are you expecting a child?’

There was no point denying it. ‘Yes, Miss Henderson.’

‘And how long, pray, did you intend to keep this information to yourself?’

‘I don’t know, Miss Henderson.’

‘You don’t know, I see. Who is the father of the child?’

Hannah thought of telling Miss Henderson to mind her own business. She shrugged, what did it matter now? ‘A soldier, Miss Henderson. Name of Mike … Michael Murphy.’

‘Married?’ Miss Henderson snapped in a voice full of scorn.

Hannah was shocked. ‘No, Miss Henderson.’

‘So he can marry you?’

‘We were to be married, Miss Henderson. Everything was booked. But then he got shipped south and then overseas.’

‘So now what will you do, for you realise you can’t stay here?’ Miss Henderson said. ‘You’ll upset and embarrass our guests, so when I tell you to pack your things, where will you go?’

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