To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters Page #9

In the end I realised

we'd delay your visit forever

if we weren't careful.

And he's so quiet now.

We barely see him during the day.

He just sleeps.

I think more people have crosses

to bear than we realise.

On the domestic side.

On the quiet.

The oddest thing -

I think I told you -

The Robinson girls, you know the

youngest two, Elizabeth and Mary?

They've started writing to Anne.

About six months after

their father died.

I mean, they're very fond of Anne,

more than she imagined.

Then they wanted to visit. Here.

So we let them,

and they came last week.

Of course, Branwell knew

nothing about it.

What were they like? Oh.

You know.

Pretty. Vacuous.

Non-stop yak-yak-yak.

Emily popped her head in,

purely to satisfy her own curiosity,

of course,

and then, after approximately

four seconds, withdrew.

It's one of the few occasions

I've really enjoyed her surliness.

Anyway, the point is,

they told us last week...

..that their mother...

What?

..is going to marry...

Sir Edward Scott.

So much for contrition

and guilt and madness

and clauses in people's wills.

He's been very sadly used, Branwell.

You didn't tell him?

What purpose would it serve?

I'm sorry to inflict

all this on you, Ellen.

Charlotte, I'm your oldest friend.

You can tell me anything,

you know that.

Look!

What is that? It's extraordinary.

It's three suns!

What is it? It's beautiful.

It's you three.

You can go now.

You'll have to sit him up

to get his shirt off.

'Tis a shame you're embarked on this

course of myopic self-destruction!

'I despise everything you stand for!

'Revolution is in the air!

'Only a fool like you, sir,

would ignore it!'

..this is the famous

dining room table,

at which the sisters used to sit

and write.

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