CHAPTER TWOIlesa was just going to answer when there was a barking and scratching at the door.
She jumped up.
“It’s the dogs,” she said unnecessarily. “They have been shut up all the time that I was in the Church. Now they know I am back.”
“Don’t let them come anywhere near me!” Doreen shouted out. “They will leave hairs on my skirt.”
Ilesa was not listening to her.
She hurried across the room to open the door and then the dogs burst in, jumping and barking with delight at seeing her.
They were two cocker spaniels and they always went everywhere with her. Ilesa loved them as much as they loved her.
If she was away, even for an hour or so, they behaved as if she had come back from a long voyage.
She now patted them lovingly and calmed them down.
Then she sat down again on the floor
