Secrets and Dreams. Jean Ure

      Mum told me later that I shouldn’t let Nat wind me up.

      “Truth to tell, she’s a bit resentful of you being at boarding school. I know it sounds silly, when it was her choice to have Lottie, and we’re buying her a pony, but I think she’s secretly scared you’ll … how can I put it? Decide we’re not good enough?”

      I said, “Mum!” That was ridiculous.

      “It’s your dad as well,” said Mum. “He’s a bit of a worryguts. Give them time, they’ll get over it. Tell me about Rachel! Does she live round here?”

      I said that she lived just three stops further down the line.

      “That’s nice! So you could always visit each other if you wanted? Like in the holidays?”