Thomas Henry Cookson

CC died at ninety-one, after several years almost at death's door; her husband followed her within three weeks.

Catherine McMullen , after long vacillation, married Thomas Henry Cookson , a Protestant grammar-school master. She decided to marry him in defiance of her priest, who forbade her to do it, and her friend, Nan Smyth

Nan Smyth , nearing death from lung cancer, came back into CC 's life in 1969. She died soon afterwards, but left with Tom Cookson , evidently in an attempt to cause maximum damage, a...

CC , her husband , and her mother moved from the Hurst (which was prohibitively expensive to keep up) to Loreto, a more modern house not far away, in a secluded woodland setting.