These Delights
“Hester and Corky were kept busy making pasties and cutting sandwiches for the men, and Vicky and Pauline carried out great jugs of cider and beer to the fields, where the sound of the tractor fell incessantly on the drowsy air.The girls worked with the men, pitching the hay, and calling out: “Comin’ up, m’dear!” “Proper weather, Tom!” “I be mazed with heat!” but Lou liked to sit in a nest of hay, nursing Bibi and begging surreptitious sips of cider from anyone who would oblige him.Diana came ov...er to lend a hand, as she had promised, and watching her shake and pitch the hay with strong, well-muscled arms, Vicky saw that in this, as in other things, she worked with the tireless single-mindedness that was her characteristic.“But she doesn’t have fun,” she said to Pauline, discovering what all along had worried her about Diana. “Look at her now, working so hard, so seriously. She doesn’t notice Ned Smale’s funny trousers, or the way the swathes look like waves lying so straight from the reaper, or joke with the men, or even flirt with Luke.MoreLess
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