Storm Tide

Authors: Elisabeth Ogilvie

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“She was alone in the pineapple-topped bed, and she lay comfortably under the quilts, listening to the sound of water running down the window panes. It was not light enough yet to see it. A real, honest-to-goodness, drenching, rain, she thought, and had to smile, remembering how everybody had called the good days weather-breeders. And this was all that had happened—a rain-storm. It had been a long time since they’d had a good rain. . . . The line storm hadn’t hit them this year, and the leaves h...ad dung for a long time to the birches and alders. Perhaps now the last of the yellow leaves would be washed away, and then it would look as if November was really coming to the Island.
She heard Owen’s laughter in the kitchen, and knew she should get up; the men were all stirring and Nils had probably been up for hours. He always got up so early. But she was warm, and still drowsy, and her mind wandered lazily back to the party last night, and the day before yesterday.MoreLess Read More Read Less