Thanks to the young conductor on the tram, they’d succeeded in reaching the city centre and they’d done all the jobs they’d planned. For Ellie, there’d been little joy in doing them. As she and Ruth matched up ribbon and buttons and discussed yokes and collars, all she could think of were those grey faces, that dark tide of hungry and exhausted people.There was nothing to comfort them when they returned home. The father of Bobby’s little friend from Moonstone Street was a policeman. As he came off duty, he’d met the two boys coming from school, so he was able to tell them the Lisburn Road had been at a standstill for three hours and reinforcements had been summoned for the following day.‘I’m warnin’ ye’s both,’ began Aunt Annie, when she’d sent Bobby to do his homework in the dining-room, ‘Say not a word about what ye’s saw and what’s happened today. Ruth knows what her father can be like, but you, Ellie dear, have never seen him when he’s in one of his moods.
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