Commencement
“I said as I rounded the corner into the kitchen, my mobile phone held aloft as I took the Professor on a remote tour of my mother’s house.
“I’m completely obsessed with that library,” he said. “You have to give your mother my compliments. I could get lost in there for hours.”
“I’ll tell her you said so. She’ll laugh, because that’s exactly what my sister and I used to do as kids. We’d curl up on the window seat in there during a storm with mugs of hot chocolate and our favorite classics....”
“You have a sister? Does she also have a name plucked from the pages of a gothic novel?”
“She does.” I nodded, grinning at him. “Charlotte, and before you ask, yes, she was named after the Bronte sister. And she’s insufferably proud of it.”
“I see, so those two little girls in the window seat during a storm, one was reading Bronte and the other Austen.”MoreLess
“I’m completely obsessed with that library,” he said. “You have to give your mother my compliments. I could get lost in there for hours.”
“I’ll tell her you said so. She’ll laugh, because that’s exactly what my sister and I used to do as kids. We’d curl up on the window seat in there during a storm with mugs of hot chocolate and our favorite classics....”
“You have a sister? Does she also have a name plucked from the pages of a gothic novel?”
“She does.” I nodded, grinning at him. “Charlotte, and before you ask, yes, she was named after the Bronte sister. And she’s insufferably proud of it.”
“I see, so those two little girls in the window seat during a storm, one was reading Bronte and the other Austen.”MoreLess
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