Chapter Five'Well, Jane was right. New teachers don't last. I must be the least successful of the lot.' As Lorna had not completely emptied her case from arrival, it did not take her long to pack up. Having a last look around the room that she had occupied for barely ten days, she shrugged and closed the door. The sound of chanting school girls seemed to mock her as she descended the stairs for the last time.
Where to now?
Ben joined her at the bottom of the stairs, looked at her and grunted. The second Lorna stepped outside the school gates, Ben slammed them shut and locked them with a twist of his wrist. Without saying a word he turned away and crunched back up the gravel path. Lorna had no notion where she would go next. The future was as black as her recent past.
With the next coach
