Mary Gallagher was one of a large family from a new housing development.
She had the good luck to be very bright and thereby qualify for a scholarship to our school.
Bright, I say, but not bright enough to learn how to avoid the various punishments the school had on offer,
a bit like me really as I was serving yet another detention for persistent lateness.
Mary was also an excellent athlete and hockey player.
Debbie, the team captain, and I recruited her just recently to the team.
It made me lose my prodigy status, but I didn’t really mind.
Mary was a very sweet girl but could she talk?
I think it was mainly that for which she was forever in trouble.
I suppose it was trying to compete with the others in her family that she talked so much, a loving family, but strict.
She was no stranger to discipline at home.