She did not want to get a house in Bishopbriggs simply because, as she insisted, ‘It’s such a lovely place. So near the Campsie Hills. Yet it’s only fifteen or twenty minutes away from the centre of town in the bus. And there’s the railway station as well. There’s even a nice wee cinema. What could be handier?’ What indeed? But handier for seeing her daughter was what she really meant. He had no personal objection to looking for a house in Bishopbriggs and starting a new life there with Julie. But there were problems and not just of Julie forever hanging about trying to catch a glimpse of Alice. (She’d found out her daughter’s name when she heard one of the other schoolgirls call it out.) There was the problem with his mother as well. If he and Julie got a house in Bishopbriggs, he wanted his mother to come with them. Julie assured him that she wouldn’t mind. She was fond of his mother and got on very well with her. His mother, however, was refusing to leave the Springburn flat.
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