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30. I couldn’t understand all the secrecy. I thought Mrs Hayes was asking me back when she wrote but she said afterwards that it was a hint to stayaway. There’s not a single thing in this life that you can’t take in two opposite ways. Especiallywith people like Mrs Hayes readyto swear black is white. She had written two pages on the subject of potatoes which I read with myhomesick heart bursting from myblouse. Two bags of Golden Wonders deposited in her cellar bya man who nearlypassed out taking them down with the sheer weight of them & theywere balls of flour. Mrs Hayes onlywished that I was there for them, no one appreciated myfood more than you, Miss Cronin & was that an invitation or what with mymouth watering as fast as myeyes? 82
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31. She wrote about Kilmainham Jail, the women objectors gathering outside, the usual TallyHo of the Cumann Na mBan screeching & roaring, making a showof themselves, although she had gone down to see herself. Two respectable middle-aged women said the rosaryoutside the gates, theyhad chairs to sit on, brought speciallybytheir sons. Theyimpressed her of course, the snob she is. Theysaid that if there wasn’t censorship of the Republicans in the first place girls wouldn’t have been arrested for painting on walls. Mrs Hayes herself wouldn’t excuse them, she said she could rupture the envelope with news of the Cumann Na mBan capers. The respectable women insisted there was ill treatment of the prisoners & even though she didn’t believe a word of it, Mrs Hayes worried about Eileen’s cough. 83

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I couldn’t understand all the secrecy. I thought Mrs Hayes was asking me back when she wrote but she said afterwards that it was a hint to stayaway. There’s not a single thing in this life that you can’t take in two opposite ways. Especiallywith people like Mrs Hayes readyto swear black is white. She had written two pages on the subject of potatoes which I read with myhomesick heart bursting from myblouse. Two bags of Golden Wonders deposited in her cellar bya man who nearlypassed out taking them down with the sheer weight of them & theywere balls of flour. Mrs Hayes onlywished that I was there for them, no one appreciated myfood more than you, Miss Cronin & was that an invitation or what with mymouth watering as fast as myeyes?

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