CHAPTER 6
Bournemouth shopping centre, even on this cold uncharitable day, seemed to thrum with people, so many more than the relative quiet of Endover. I pulled my jacket closer about me as I silently determined that my first purchase would be a warm coat, scarf and gloves. I also needed to buy a suitcase to put it all in so that I could arrive back at the B & B looking as though I’d just retrieved it from the railway station property office.
Once I’d deposited my cash into a safe deposit box facility at the bank I headed for the shops, spending all of the four hundred pounds I’d set aside. It was annoying having to spend so much when I had perfectly good clothes in storage back in Endover, there being no need for a fashion wardrobe in St Joseph’s, but I considered it a fair price for m
