To Love and Be Loved(103)

She turned to face him, the man who held her hand across the mattress at night. The man she loved beyond words and would love beyond life.

‘I think that it’s a shame folk still find the need to talk about someone at all, sad that she should be the brunt of gossip and tittle-tattle for all these years. And I think you’ll find the girl Guthrie loved and who loved him in return was called Ellen, not Helen.’

‘Hah! Your gran was called Ellen.’ Alex smiled at the coincidence.

‘Yes she was, my love, yes she was.’