The cats purred around them and UncleTom and dad
played checkers. And Rae will be somewhere near after two years, thought
Pat.
And I have a few thingspicked up in my wanderings
youll love, Pat.
Life had suddenly become for herlike a landscape on
the moon. Silver Bush looked beautiful, even on that dour November day,against its
sheltering trees.
Judys face took on a beauty and dignityin death it
had never known in life.
Mother, who bore up wonderfully, watched her
anxiously. THIS eBook IS OTHERWISE PROVIDED TO YOU AS-IS.
Ill go to the end of the world and back with you,
Hilary.
Hardtasks, insufficiency, and unending money
worries are still theordinary stuff of life.
Everything had fallen into ruinsaround
her.
What are the broad lines upon which these
alterations of condition areproceeding? Pat seemed to die a thousand deaths on that
ride home. First they beganto happen, and then we began to see that they were
happening.
If other people would onlystay young, Pat thought,
she wouldnt mind growing old herself.
You know Ive died several times of homesicknesswhen
I was away. In the spring Long Alec again announced that the next year the newhouse
would be built. Uncle Tom and Aunt Barbara and Winnie and Frank and their
childrencame. We can eat with the sound of the pines in our ears.
I want to have you wholly to myself for an
hourbefore we go back to Swallowfield.
Yes, she was faintly glad Judys kittens had not
been burned. Theres a lovely jam closet, said Hilary slyly. Letters were forwarded
but parcelswerent. I know what this tragedy of Silver Bush musthave meant to you .
Ithought I couldnt marry them because I couldnt leave Silver Bush.