The Girls
“What do you make of them?’Leo shrugged. ‘They seem like perfectly nice children. The older one’s a bit frosty but the little one seems charming.’‘Did Tyler tell you’, she began, ‘what Cecelia said to her when she saw them in Waitrose last week?’‘No. She did not.’ He put down his book, showing that he was fully engaged with the conversation. ‘What?’‘She said that she recognised their mother, from an article in the papers a few months back. An article about a man with paranoid schizophrenia who s...et his house on fire because voices in his head told him it was infested with alien rats who were scheming to take over the world. Anyway. I Googled it earlier and I think she might be right. Two girls aged eleven and twelve. Mother aged thirty-two. House in Hampstead. Happened last November. The article I read said the mother and children had been taken in by relatives afterwards. It all adds up.’‘Christ,’ said Leo, ‘those poor little girls.’‘I know. Imagine it.MoreLess
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