outsideArms“Caught her where?”
“On the car park at the back. With some 19-year-old boy from Whitechapel who — well, you get the idea.” She withdrew into silence, evidently wondering if she’d gone too far by telling him.
“How do you know all this?” he asked.
know“Adam, we live in Little Bassington. Everyone knows everyone else’s business. They all talk. I know she’s your friend, but she’s probably the kind of woman your aunt would have told you to stay away from.”
Little Bassingtonall“How do you know what my aunt would have said?” he shot back.
“I don’t. I’m sorry, I was just—”
Adam sighed. He knew what Sally was like. He didn’t need anyone else to spell it out, or colour in the story of her life for him. It was already uncomfortably vivid, however much she tried to pass it off in a f
