Lady Afraid
“ALICE MILDRED SAID gently. “Sarah, do you wish to awaken your son?”
“I don’t know,” Sarah replied. “Is he accustomed to waking up this early?”
“No. When he was a little baby he would arouse at four every morning. But not anymore.”
“Then,” Sarah said with infinite tranquility, “we will let him finish his sleep out.”
“Yes, we will do that,” the old lady breathed.
Sarah found that she could smile. It was perhaps the first time she had smiled tonight, and the first time she had felt like it in a lo...ng while. And she knew one thing clearly—she knew that now she understood Alice Mildred, fully and wonderfully. And Alice Mildred now had the same closeness. Sarah actually had an aesthetic feeling about it, as if they had been separated by a closed door for years in suffering and misunderstanding but tonight they had opened the door, had gone through; now they were together in the sunlight. That was wild, like talking in terms of the stars, Sarah thought. But it was true.MoreLess
“I don’t know,” Sarah replied. “Is he accustomed to waking up this early?”
“No. When he was a little baby he would arouse at four every morning. But not anymore.”
“Then,” Sarah said with infinite tranquility, “we will let him finish his sleep out.”
“Yes, we will do that,” the old lady breathed.
Sarah found that she could smile. It was perhaps the first time she had smiled tonight, and the first time she had felt like it in a lo...ng while. And she knew one thing clearly—she knew that now she understood Alice Mildred, fully and wonderfully. And Alice Mildred now had the same closeness. Sarah actually had an aesthetic feeling about it, as if they had been separated by a closed door for years in suffering and misunderstanding but tonight they had opened the door, had gone through; now they were together in the sunlight. That was wild, like talking in terms of the stars, Sarah thought. But it was true.MoreLess
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