. Two girls on a barge. key grates in the closing doorwill it have seemed possible that we may have beentrespassing. Then there is * Fords Hospital, in Grey-friars Lane, where twenty old women sit in thesun, happy in the possession of three-and-sixpencea week and coal, living out these latter holidayswhen the weeks wash is folded away and thescouring is done, surrounded by the gateways ofa mediaeval fairy tale. But Edna says she will whisper something toyou before you buy your ticket on the MetropolitanExtension. Of course, you must live on a bargewhen you go to Coventry. And you must let your
. Two girls on a barge. key grates in the closing doorwill it have seemed possible that we may have beentrespassing. Then there is * Fords Hospital, in Grey-friars Lane, where twenty old women sit in thesun, happy in the possession of three-and-sixpencea week and coal, living out these latter holidayswhen the weeks wash is folded away and thescouring is done, surrounded by the gateways ofa mediaeval fairy tale. But Edna says she will whisper something toyou before you buy your ticket on the MetropolitanExtension. Of course, you must live on a bargewhen you go to Coventry. And you must let yourcoming be unknown and your departure lingeralways as the shadow of a sorrow which is scarcelyunderstood. You must pass as the slender spiresbrood in the white moonlight and the great organof St. Michaels trembles out into the pathway, andgo by in the narrow street between the dark pilesof the churches up to the big library, where thechairs scroop on the floor. After that you may go to the play ! 152 TWO GIRLS ON A BARGE. FOED S HOSPITAL, COVENTRY TWO GIRLS ON A BARGE 53 There are three theatres in Coventry, and whilewe were there sometimes a Dress Circle. Edna
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