As the weeks passed, they did manage to see Kate from time to time, since she was brought to the Reilly’s on the occasional Sunday for that purpose. But more and more she seemed like a stranger to them - speaking in a different kind of voice and dressed in fine clothes. They never saw Clare Conroy but just listened to Kate singing her praises: she was so beautiful, so refined…and so delicate. Nor did they see any of them at Mass: the Conroy household worshipped at St Andrew’s on Clyde Street.
Maeve began to feel more settled in her life, feeling herself hardening by her work but going to church regularly and enjoying an occasional Sunday afternoon walk with Danny Docherty. As promised, he had taken her along Argyle Street to see Patrick Reilly’s elegant furniture shop, the Emporium. They
