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| Another letter to Miss Nascent | |
| By jean.day | ||||||
| 27 September 2006 | ||||||
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I wondered if Doris really wants to get the inheritance for her long lost child badly enough to go through all the palaver that would be involved. It might mean a court case, which would cost loads of money which I know she doesn’t have. It would certainly mean exposure of her secret to all and sundry. It might mean lots of embarrassment for lots of the villagers, not only Doris and me. In my internet checking, I found out that the cost of having a DNA sample would be considerable. The cheapest sort was for a cheek scrape – but we weren’t able to get that from poor old long dead Lord Nascent, and that was £125. Then if you were doing more sophisticated ones, like on hair, it looked as if £400 would be more the going rate. And then I also read that hair was only useable if the roots were still there – cut hair didn’t count. And as Doris has said she had used her scissors, I think her little envelope of hair will be of no use to us. I also found out that a tooth might be used, but unless someone knocked out one of Lord Nascent’s teeth and he presented it to Doris, I think we are not on a winner there either. I had not been at all happy with the way Peter and Helen had treated me the other day, but Helen had seemed sincere when she said she would not expose our pictures to the general public. I thought it might just be worth contacting her again, to see if I could get her to give us the pictures. I knew that in a face to face encounter, she would intimidate me, as she had before. Even though she says she isn’t Lady Nascent, she is the most powerful woman in the village and she knows it and what’s more she enjoys using her power and to let us know she is in control. But last time she at least took notice of my letter. There is something about the written word – and of course, she will know that I will keep copies of whatever I write, so she can’t pretend it is just something that she can ignore and it will go away. So after much thought, I wrote out the following: Dear Miss Nascent, I won’t say I enjoyed meeting you the other day, but I did hope from what I saw of you that you would be fair and honest in your dealing with me. You say you have pictures of me and my friend Doris from our teenage years. I think those should be returned to us, along with any letters or any other personal belongings that Lord Nascent had from us. He didn’t mean anything to you. You didn’t even know him. To us, he was a very important part of our growing-up years, and we would value having the evidence of those memories in our control. I know you say that you are anxious to avoid any unpleasantness associated with your family, so that is why I am hoping you will grant my request. Yours sincerely, Mrs. J. Day
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