Whisper Their Love
“One was that you can get away with almost anything as long as you keep cool. She had always supposed that someone would be suspicious if you did anything you weren't supposed to, either God, or somebody acting as God's deputy, like Aunt Gen or the teacher. Or maybe the neighbors, about whom Aunt Gen always worried. Now here she was walking around all loaded down with guilty secrets, her own and Edith Bannister's, and most of all Mary Jean's and nobody seemed to have any inkling that anything was wrong. She began to suspect teachers were not in a special class along with ministers and congressmen, but were merely human beings like everyone else and, like everyone else, primarily interested in themselves. It was disillusioning, but a relief.
Another surprising thing was the way time kept expanding and contracting. That was partly because she had mixed emotions on the subject. She wanted desperately to get through the next few weeks and come out on the other side, with all the worry ...and pain behind her and nothing to dread.MoreLess
Another surprising thing was the way time kept expanding and contracting. That was partly because she had mixed emotions on the subject. She wanted desperately to get through the next few weeks and come out on the other side, with all the worry ...and pain behind her and nothing to dread.MoreLess
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