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Child made her Confirmation yesterday, all glowing in white. Like a shiny little angel, but with the devil's eyes when she looks at Norah. Norah would have liked to go to the Confirmation, to see the bishop on his throne, his hat half the height of himself, and the white flowers and the prayers, but the devil eyes that didn't want her made her stay at home.
Peg thinks Child is so good and Child wants to keep it that way. "Isn't little Maureen such a good girl?" says Peg, never knowing it's only like that while she's around, that behind her back it's the nasty looks and faces, and the cold hard words for Norah.
Yesterday, when the two of us were on our own in the kitchen, Child told me I was to stop looking at her. I have the eye of a jackdaw, she said, always following her around,
