Dear Doctor Lily (1988)
“She had to have a porter, but she had no money to pay him until she found Buddy. Suppose he wasn’t here? Suppose he had given her up and gone back to Watkins A.F. Base, Mass?
‘See your party, miss?’ The friendly black porter stopped his trolley.
Ida looked everywhere, moving this way and that to see past groups of people gathered round passengers, talking noisily, small children clamouring at ground level. No Buddy. No patch of grey-blue, moving rather stiffly, as he did when he was in uniform....
‘He’ll be here, I know he will.’ Did the porter think she had been ditched?
‘Sure he will.’ The porter took her bags off the trolley. ‘I have to go help another party.’ ‘But I can’t pay you till I –’ ‘Don’t worry about it. I’ll be back. Just look for me on your way out. You’ll be okay.’ He was huge and kind and dignified and safe, like Jarvis Murray at the bottom of Staple Street, whose daughter had taught Ida to jive. When he had gone, Ida stood by her luggage as if she were on a tiny desert island, and wondered if she would recognize Buddy, even if he were here.MoreLess
‘See your party, miss?’ The friendly black porter stopped his trolley.
Ida looked everywhere, moving this way and that to see past groups of people gathered round passengers, talking noisily, small children clamouring at ground level. No Buddy. No patch of grey-blue, moving rather stiffly, as he did when he was in uniform....
‘He’ll be here, I know he will.’ Did the porter think she had been ditched?
‘Sure he will.’ The porter took her bags off the trolley. ‘I have to go help another party.’ ‘But I can’t pay you till I –’ ‘Don’t worry about it. I’ll be back. Just look for me on your way out. You’ll be okay.’ He was huge and kind and dignified and safe, like Jarvis Murray at the bottom of Staple Street, whose daughter had taught Ida to jive. When he had gone, Ida stood by her luggage as if she were on a tiny desert island, and wondered if she would recognize Buddy, even if he were here.MoreLess
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