The Beekeeper's Daughter
“She went back to her life – reading for Colonel Redwood, looking after her father, meeting her friends in the Fox and Goose – and pushed into the recesses of her mind her brief moment on the lawn with Rufus. She discovered that by focusing on the present, she was able to prevent her mind from wandering into the past. When she wasn’t busy, she watched the bees. Every time Rufus’s face surfaced, she concentrated all her attention on the small creatures she so loved. She watched them working in th...e flowerbeds and she watched them coming in and out of the hives. She listened to their low buzzing, and as the summer days grew shorter and the evenings chillier, she found that if she applied herself to her task, it worked. But it required a monumental effort, and at night, when she lay in bed with nothing but her will to control the determined wandering of her mind, she gave in. She was too tired and too unhappy to fight it.Freddie was busy with the harvest. He was up at dawn and spending all day in the fields, thatching ricks, cutting the wheat and barley, tying them into stooks to dry in the sun.MoreLess
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