"And what are you thinking?"
"I was wondering was there someone dressing up to frighten the kids."
"Well if there was they've succeeded, and the kid's father, it seems, too."
Peter laughed. "Yes, you're right. I suppose it's non-sense. I just didn't like to think of someone deliberately setting out to upset them. Anna has many faults, God know, but I think she did see something that worried her."
"And what did she say the woman looked like?"
"You know children... they have to relate it to someone they know. She said she looked like your Helen."
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The senior girls in the convent were going to have a special session of their own with Father John. That meant that the tweleve to fifteen-year-olds would hear something the younger ones would not.
Anna Kelly was very curious. "Is it about babies?" she asked.
"Probably." Clio said loftily.
"I know about babies." Anna said defiantly.
"I wish I'd known enough about them to suffocate you while you still were one." Clio spoke from the heart.
"You and Kit think you're terrific. You're just supid." Anna said.
"Yeah, I know. We can't see ghosts and we don't get nightmares... it's desperate."
They shook her off eventually and went to sit on the low wall of Sullivan's Motor Works. It was good vantage point of Sullivan's Motor Works. It was a good vantage point to survey Lough Glass and no one could say they were causing trouble if they just sat still.
"Isn't it a wonder that Emmet is so normal. I mean, for a boy and everything." Clio said in admiration. Privately Kit thought that Anna Kelly might not be so irritating if Clio had ever spoken to her younger sister with anything other than disdain.