Nellie agreed, mostly because she wanted Eliza gone. She felt she’d been ambushed in her own home and only when she heard the disappearing cab wheels hissing down the damp cobbles of Vauban Street did she allow herself to relax. She sank into the chair lately occupied by Eliza and found that she was shaking. Alice sat opposite her and they were both silent for a long moment, then Alice voiced what she had been thinking.‘Could she take Matty and Charlie away from us?’Nellie shook her head. ‘I don’t know, Al, but she’d have a bloody good fight on her hands if she tried.’‘She would know about the legal side of things, I suppose?’ ventured Alice. ‘What if we’re breaking the law, keeping them?’‘I don’t think she’d be bothered with that, I mean she hasn’t cared about them up till now. No, I reckon it was just seeing them doing the home work did it, more to do with her principles than the kids, if you ask me. Sam always said she put her own work first, why would it be any different now?’Nellie didn’t want to worry Alice with her own fears, but she suspected if it came to a court of law, Eliza James would seem the most respectable guardian.
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