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town.

'You can mock all you like, Teresa Kelly,
there's a Prince Charming out there for each
and every one of us. Or if there isn't there
should be. And one fine day I'm going to meet
mine. I just know it.'

'You're away with the fairies, you are. Always
have been in my recollection, and God knows
I've known you long enough.'

Teresa stared hard at her friend. 'Those silly
books you've forever got your nose stuck in have
a lot to answer for, and that's a fact. They've
made you expect too much out of life. You'll
settle for some nice lad just like all the rest of
us, someone plain and ordinary and a far cry
from a blinking Prince Charming. There'll be
the wedding followed by weans and years of
toil as is the case with all the women round
here. There'll be precious little time for gazing
adoringly into eyes when you'll be spending


most of your time down the steamie boiling
dirty nappies or else at home slaving over a
hot stove and trying to make ends meet.'

Despair filled Bridie. What Teresa said was
true enough, though she was reluctant in the
extreme to accept it.

'Life's real, and hard,' Bridie went on. 'What
you read in those books of yours are only
stories. Sort of ... well, things to get you out
of yourself. A pretence if you wish.'

Bridie closed her eyes and pictured a
handsome, dashing young man with flaxen
hair and piercing blue eyes. 'Zamour,' she
breathed again. 'A meeting of souls.'

Teresa barked out a laugh. 'Your arse in
parsley, hen. A meeting of souls indeed. Utter
tosh.'

'It is not!' Bridie retorted fiercely.

It is sought. Och, I admit when you find the