Or Mrs Ayers bought her Billy a jacket and while she was in the shop, she thought, might as well get that nice young fellow my husband got into that Banks Street school where Billy is, because he’s on the board...a jacket too? Maybe he was wearing it when he met Mr Hulton, the postman outside the Ayers home where he went to thank them for contributing towards his education?
Maybe.
And that’s why he’s wearing it in Central Park when they inserted him between the Dunhams.
Maybe.
We ARE allowed to say MAYBE, I hope. And btw, my screen name IS Fred Nerks, and yes, it’s a sort-of-a-code IN AUSSIE SPEAK - it means the man down the road you can trust, he’s often quoted as ‘Fred Nerks says’ and he’s a bit of a know-it-all as well.
The jacket. I think I remember someone saying something about that kind of jacket.