of Music.’
‘The nuns burst into song, all sorts of impossible harmonies, that’s what I heard.’
Rosie followed scripture to the end.
‘Some of them couldn’t even sing. But they had beautiful voices that day, like angels.’
Peg stared at the ceiling, knowing what was coming.
‘It was a miracle.’
Here they were, at the edge of Rosie’s mission, the reason she had returned to New York, against her better judgement: the Unofficial Miracles of Pope John Paul III. Rosie stared at her imagined Blarney Stone; she could just make it out in the dark. Peg would take the bait, Rosie knew she would, letting the silence stretch, a task that years of sharing a bedroom had prepared her for.
‘That’s not what happened,’ Peg said eventually.
Rosie waited a moment.
‘What did happen, then?’
Peg sighed; it was too late to feign sleep. Part of her longed to, wishing she could kick Rosie and her sheet-hogging back into the living room. Another part of her liked this, though, the two of them in the same room, talking in the dark, they way they’d used to back in 7 Dunluce Crescent, Peg’s snores never fooling Rosie, even then.
Peg shifted around. She could just make out Rosie’s eyes in the dark. Here they were, at the edge of the Unofficial Miracles of John Paul Doyle. Peg had them all in her head.
Remember the Scarlet Communion Dress?
Remember the Blessed Shells of Erris?
Remember the Fish Fingers that Fed the Fifty?
Other historians might have picked a different miraculous origin (the bloody tea towel; the singing nuns at the christening) but Peg knew enough about alternative histories to select a miracle where she had a central role.
‘Do you remember The Chronicle of the Children of Lir?’
Series III:
(1985–1991)
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