She hesitated for a moment before she went on,
“The only people who came were friends from the County and those we employed.”
She had wondered that after his death had appeared in the newspapers if anyone would come to the funeral or write a letter of condolence to her.
But nothing had happened and no one had turned up and Sheila was forced to face the fact that she not only had no money but no relatives.
She supposed that in a way it was her fault when she had left school at seventeen that she had not asked her friends to come and stay.
Nor had she forced her father to arrange some sort of party for them.
The last years she had been at school her mother had been ill and she had therefore been unable to invite her girlfriends to come to stay.
And after her mother had died, her fathe
