Linda was the woman and I'm Liam, her ex-husband. I suppose I could be considered simple in some respects. That was certainly McCullough's unlearned opinion of me and I guess to a great extent it must have been Linda's as well as she left me for the bastard. In any event I survived all in one piece. Linda started working for McCullough the following Monday after her interview and settled into her role quite successfully from her accounts. It was basically an 8 to 5 job initially but that changed after a few months. She started working a couple evenings during the week and would get home around 9 or 10PM. I was spending enough time of my own at the plant so I couldn't really complain a great deal. Regardless of the workweek, we were together every weekend and life continued to be good or at
