Gates of Dawn
“She looked exceptionally pretty as she lay in her over-large bed in her firelit room, her blue eyes bright with an unnatural brilliance, a hectic pink color on her cheeks. What worried Melanie almost more than anything else was the fact that she was so resentful because she was ill. And Sylvia Gaythorpe was on her mind all the time.“She’s not really a bit like my mother,” she said once, rather shrilly. “Except that she’s got her hair—and her eyes! And that’s what attracts Uncle Richard. And if ...he married her I shall have to have her for an aunt—and I’ll simply detest that!”“My dear child, they’re not even engaged yet,” Melanie pointed out.“No, but they will be!” Noel insisted, as if, like Brigid, she had the second sight.Melanie sat down beside the bed and held her hand comfortingly.“I’ve already told you more than once not to cross your bridges before you get to them. The unpleasant things do not always happen, you know,” she said soothingly, but she felt strongly that in this case they almost certainly would.Noel looked up at her with feverish, anxious eyes.“You heard what she said about school!MoreLess
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