Delusion
““I know things are topsy-turvy. Us, and the world. You don’t have to decide anything now. I know, you’ve decided already. Your lips told me, even without words. But it’s a woman’s privilege to change her mind, right? I just want you to know that, if you change yours, I won’t say a word of reproach, only ‘yes.’ I love you, Phil. Always have, always will. I want you to be my wife, but if you won’t be that, you’ll still be my friend. Like it or not, eh?”
The news about Stan had certainly softened ...the blow of rejection. After a hasty conference, the sisters had decided to stay as far away from the truth as possible. They told him that Stan had been found, insensible, and taken to a country sanitarium where, the doctors were hopeful, he might regain his memory in a year’s time.
“It’s enough,” Hector said, giving Phil a brotherly peck on the forehead. “I suppose two miracles would be asking a bit much of the cosmos.”
As soon as he’d gone, Phil ran to Stour, but Arden was nowhere to be found, and she held her classes on the field as usual, bludgeoning her students without mercy, catching a tap on the cheek from the instantly contrite Rapp on one of the frequent occasions when she glanced hopefully over her shoulder toward the castle.MoreLess
The news about Stan had certainly softened ...the blow of rejection. After a hasty conference, the sisters had decided to stay as far away from the truth as possible. They told him that Stan had been found, insensible, and taken to a country sanitarium where, the doctors were hopeful, he might regain his memory in a year’s time.
“It’s enough,” Hector said, giving Phil a brotherly peck on the forehead. “I suppose two miracles would be asking a bit much of the cosmos.”
As soon as he’d gone, Phil ran to Stour, but Arden was nowhere to be found, and she held her classes on the field as usual, bludgeoning her students without mercy, catching a tap on the cheek from the instantly contrite Rapp on one of the frequent occasions when she glanced hopefully over her shoulder toward the castle.MoreLess
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