Diana Jones - Vile Visitors

We all piled out and sat under an umbrella.

“Well, what will you have?” said Angus Flint.

Deep breaths were drawn and cream teas for five were ordered. We all waited, looking forward to cream and cakes. We felt we really deserved our teas.

Angus Flint said, “I’ve applied for a job in your town, Margaret. The interview’s tomorrow. Your husband was good enough to say that I could make my home with you. Don’t you think that’s a good idea?”

We stared. Had Dad said that?

“There’s Cora,” Mum said. “We’ve no room.”

“That’s no problem,” Angus Flint said. “You can put the two girls in together.”

“No!” I said. If you knew Cora—

“I’d pay,” Angus Flint said, joking and trying to be nice. “A nominal sum – a pound a month, say?”

Mum drew herself up resolutely, to my great relief. “No, Angus. It’s absolutely out of the question. You’ll have to go as soon as Cora comes back.”

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