Chapter 6
“Charlotte’s in bed. So unless you hear anything from her, you should have an easy time of it,” Helen said after welcoming us inside their house Friday evening.
“Mark’s brought some college work, and I’ve got a book to read, so we shouldn’t disturb her,” I said.
“You can watch the telly or listen to the radio if you like,” Paul added.
“We might listen to a bit of music in the background then,” Mark said.
Paul and Helen soon left for their theatre date. If they said they liked it I promised myself I’d take Mark to go see it. We rarely went to the theatre.
Little Charlotte was no trouble. We’d been initiated into the unpleasant art of nappy changing a few months earlier. Sam, our instructor, went into a rather detailed and stomach-churning dissertation on the interesting co
