Driving lessons

The coroner had criticised them both. Elsie, for agreeing to give Daisy driving lessons and Daisy for taking up driving at the age of seventy two. He hoped they would both now give up the idea after this distressing and terrible accident.

The police report said that their car had reversed at high speed through a hedge and over a shelter made of branches and moss. The occupant of the shelter had been killed. It went on to say that amongst the victims possessions were a number of bird's eggs expertly blown, items of crushed jewellery and a silver photograph frame. The dead man was known to the police and had been in custody for preying on the elderly.

Later back home, Daisy poured two glasses of chilled pale sherry and the two of them silently toasted each other.

On Daisy's sideboard there was a photograph of two young women in uniform posing in front of an anti-aircraft station and another photograph of a young Daisy, sitting at the wheel of a ten ton army truck, she was looking directly at the camera wearing a cheeky grin, in one corner of the photograph written in white was the date, August 1944.

Missing from Elsie's house was a photo of her late husband, a small broach and her engagement ring…