"Ach Mary how are you doing? it's a long time since I last saw you. I'm
here to try and get nerve tablets, as you know I never had anything
wrong with my nerves till I heard about our Wilma's man. Why whats wrong
Masie is he dead as well?, dead, dead did you say, have you not heard
it's the talk of the whole road, sure you must have heard all about it?.
Honest to God Masie i haven't heard a thing. Well let me tell you what
he's up to and our dear Wilma not even dead a year until easter, God
rest her soul.
Last week when I was coming out of the co-op I met Lizzy Colhoun an she
couldn't tell me soon enough about Willy McIlroy and his exploits. She
said that he was beating about with Sadie McDyer from the top of the
road, do you remember her?, I know the name but can't place her, well
her da was Arter McDyer who used to keep the pigs in a yard down behind
the wee gospel hall, the men all said he had a bottom lip like a pigeons
lighting board. Sadie McDyer used to help him collect skins to feed the
pigs, sure she was never at school. Ach I know who you are talking
about now, you would think butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. Lizzy
Colhoun told me that she seen the pair of them in Castle Court last
friday, she said that she had to look twice to make sure she wasn't
seeing things, she was holding his arm and he was carrying her shopping
bags. Masie thats awful, you would think that he could of waited a wee
while longer about going with another woman. Woman said Masie she is
not a woman, nothing but a money grabber, i could tell you that within
six months she will be on the arm of somebody else's man. God rest our
Wilma's soul, she would turn in her grave if she thought that Sadie
McDyer was going in and out of her wee house, and she had it like a wee
palace.
Well, Lizzy said she followed them out of Castle Court, well not
followed but was behind them and she thought they were heading for the
bus, but no, they walked into the Deer's Head pub, and you know when our
Wilma was living she never set her foot over the door of a pub. Willy
McIlroy would come home from the shipyard every friday with his
paypacket never opened and our Wilma would give him 10 bob for to go and
see the blues on a saturday, other than that he never crossed the door.
As you know the only other time they went out was the twelth fortnight
to Millisle in Billy Rodgers caravan for a wee holiday, they went every
year. Now, Lizzy said that at 9 a clock they where both staggering up
the road and that they went into his house together. I never asked her
how she knew that, as I was mortified. My Albert went round the next
day to ask him what he was playing at". Just then my name was called to
go into see the doctor and I never knew the end of the story about
Willie and Sadie from up the road.
