Legacy of Silence (2011)
“For a long time, she was aware of a hurried heartbeat. The future, in spite of all that had been said and all the measured, careful plans that had been made, was only an enormous, shapeless vacancy, a stepping off from a precipice into empty air.
Minutes passed. Then, gradually, the thought that Lore was in the next bedroom began to have a quieting effect. In a way, Caroline had resented her parents’ insistence, and also Walter’s, that Lore and she leave together. To have need of Lore had seeme...d to be a reflection upon her own abilities. Yet, remembering now the emotional scene at the railway station in Berlin, she saw how much more emotional it would have been if she had ridden away alone, if alone she had strained for the last look at Father and Walter waving their hats and Mama waving a yellow handkerchief.
Walter, who had analyzed Lore surprisingly well, had named her “the stabilizer,” which indeed she had been. She had quieted Mama’s fearful premonition that this parting might be a permanent one, and so had turned the packing of trunks from tragedy into adventure.MoreLess
Minutes passed. Then, gradually, the thought that Lore was in the next bedroom began to have a quieting effect. In a way, Caroline had resented her parents’ insistence, and also Walter’s, that Lore and she leave together. To have need of Lore had seeme...d to be a reflection upon her own abilities. Yet, remembering now the emotional scene at the railway station in Berlin, she saw how much more emotional it would have been if she had ridden away alone, if alone she had strained for the last look at Father and Walter waving their hats and Mama waving a yellow handkerchief.
Walter, who had analyzed Lore surprisingly well, had named her “the stabilizer,” which indeed she had been. She had quieted Mama’s fearful premonition that this parting might be a permanent one, and so had turned the packing of trunks from tragedy into adventure.MoreLess
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