where she had been called on stage and given a certificate for being an exceptional representative of Hazeldene Comp.
Now she thought about it, that was possibly the moment Nora had begun to go off swimming.
The moment she found it harder being with her friends, the moment she slunk away into the margins of school life.
“I used to see you in the library during breaks,” he said, smiling at the memory.
I remember seeing you playing chess with that librarian we used to have... what was her name?
“Mrs Elm,” Nora said. “That’s it! Mrs Elm!” And then he said something even more startling.
I saw her the other day.” “Did you?” “Yeah. She was on Shakespeare Road.
With someone dressed in a uniform. Like a nurse’s outfit. I think she was heading into the care home after a walk.
She looked very frail. Very old.For some reason, Nora had assumed Mrs Elm had died years ago,
and that the version of Mrs Elm she always saw in the library had made that idea more likely,
as that version was always the exact version she had been at school,
preserved in Nora’s memory like a mosquito in amber.Oh no. Poor Mrs Elm. I loved her.
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