Aunt Dimity Digs in
Aunt Dimity Digs in
“Rainey Dawson didn’t walk. She bounced, skittered, twirled, and all but took to the air in flight as we made our way across the square. The oppressive heat had no effect on her, and her prodigal expenditure of energy contributed nothing to our progress.
She was infinitely distractable. She dropped onto the cobbles to pry a thumbtack from the sole of her left sneaker, ran to the war memorial to retrieve a willow wand, paused for a refreshing splash in the Peacocks’ puddles, and scampered over to... Bill’s office to admire—and “accidentally” break off—a pendant of wysteria, which she presented to me as a token of affection.
It wore me out to watch her, but I made no move to check her. The boys wouldn’t require my presence in the churchyard for another twenty minutes, and Rainey clearly needed to blow off a little steam. I let her stretch her legs at random for a few minutes more before I finally lassoed her with a question.
“Did your grandmother send you over to the Emporium,”MoreLess
She was infinitely distractable. She dropped onto the cobbles to pry a thumbtack from the sole of her left sneaker, ran to the war memorial to retrieve a willow wand, paused for a refreshing splash in the Peacocks’ puddles, and scampered over to... Bill’s office to admire—and “accidentally” break off—a pendant of wysteria, which she presented to me as a token of affection.
It wore me out to watch her, but I made no move to check her. The boys wouldn’t require my presence in the churchyard for another twenty minutes, and Rainey clearly needed to blow off a little steam. I let her stretch her legs at random for a few minutes more before I finally lassoed her with a question.
“Did your grandmother send you over to the Emporium,”MoreLess
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