The Lost Soldier
“It was already an accepted thing that she should go to the evening service there whenever her duties permitted it, and unless there was a panic on, Sister Eloise made no problem in giving her the time.
Tom was waiting for her the other side of the convent wall, and together they walked through the camp to the tent Robert Kingston had converted into his church. At first they walked in silence, an unaccustomed awkwardness between them. Both knew that something between them had changed after the moment in the garden and their exchange in the cold air of the cemetery, but neither could put into words exactly what.
Their friendship, one brought about through the chance of war, had grown with their mutual concern for Harry. It might have developed quite differently or not at all, Molly had thought as she lay in bed, her mind whirling in the darkness, if Reverend Mother hadn’t issued her prohibition. She might never have thought of Tom Carter as anything more than an injured young man who ne...eded a little comfort after the death of his friend, but because the nun had forbidden them to meet, Molly had come to realise how much she wanted the friendship to grow, to develop… into what?MoreLess
Tom was waiting for her the other side of the convent wall, and together they walked through the camp to the tent Robert Kingston had converted into his church. At first they walked in silence, an unaccustomed awkwardness between them. Both knew that something between them had changed after the moment in the garden and their exchange in the cold air of the cemetery, but neither could put into words exactly what.
Their friendship, one brought about through the chance of war, had grown with their mutual concern for Harry. It might have developed quite differently or not at all, Molly had thought as she lay in bed, her mind whirling in the darkness, if Reverend Mother hadn’t issued her prohibition. She might never have thought of Tom Carter as anything more than an injured young man who ne...eded a little comfort after the death of his friend, but because the nun had forbidden them to meet, Molly had come to realise how much she wanted the friendship to grow, to develop… into what?MoreLess
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