Hale andhearty types canascendthe steep hill at 225th Street to the Kingsbridge Armory, a 575, 000-square-footbrickcastle that looksas if it was lifted froma storybook.
We owned no car and Paddy had been driving me in a horse and trap to the Loreto convent, a red-brick building on a hill overlooking Youghal bay, where the nuns were slowly teaching me to read and write.