Secrets
A Guardian’s Club story from Uniform Girls 21 The postman has already called when Henry wanders downstairs at half-past six on this Saturday morning. There are several brown manilla envelopes on the doormat, one of them large and fat. It is the one he has been expecting. Over coffee and a bowl of cornflakes he slits the envelope open. Dear H. Photos of Gillian, as promised. She is the girl with short dark hair and the ‘fuck-me’ expression; the other girl is Freddie’s ‘secretary’, but I dare say you’ve come across — or up — her before.’ Henry has, when she was a year or so younger and new to it all. She’d been twenty then — word had it that Freddie was ‘bringing on’ another girl, a younger one. He would have to get something arranged there. Henry has already glanced through the photos; now he looks at them one by one, taking in the girl’s face, then her body, and then studying her face again more closely. The new one is delic