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When Alison went downstairs,
j e heard voices outside.
Viola was clearing away the
iishes. *
“Mister Sam’s car won’t
tart,” she said, “the battery’s
aone dead.”
Presently Teresa came in
v.ith a purposeful air. She had
thrown her mink coat over her
,iavy slack suit.
“Oh. Viola, I’m sorry. I’m
racking mud. But Mr. Tar
j.gnt's car won’t start and I’m
^riving him in to his office.
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Good morning, Alison. Sleepy
head. Is there anything I can
get you in the village, Viola?
Greceries? Meat.
“Yas’m.”
_ “Where’s a pencil and paper?
I’ll have to write a list.”
Obviously Viola kept all such
matters in her head. She looked
nervous and bewildered. She
looked as if she had a good
mind to drop the dishes and
run. Teresa moved too quickly
for her and asked too many
questions.
ieresa said, “Never mind. I’ll
find them. We can’t keep Mr.
Tarrant waiting.”
“No’m.”
In an atmosphere of' tempo
rary tranquility the doctor
came. Alison liked the aging,
lumbering, tired country doctos,
who truly looked as if he slept
in his clothes. No matter that
his fingers were stained with
nicotine or that his spare, sandy
hair was a stranger to a brush.
No matter these things when
you saw 40 years of skill and
experience make a sick child
well. A man of few words, he
had no bedside manner, no
charm of personality, but like
Sam he would dignify any
house, anywhere.
As usual when they came
down he sat for a few minutes
to give her her instructions as
to the child’s care—her diet, so
many hours sitting up today,
Per medicine. Either shy or ab
sorbed he had scarcely noticed
Alison. But this morning,
squinting through the smoke of
his cigaret, he looked at her
quite directly.
He spoke slowly. “You’re
Mrs. Tarrant’s sister”
“Yes.” No doubt he had for
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gotten that in the beginning she
had told him she was Sam’s
sister-in-law.
“Has Mrs. Tarrant gone back
to Washington?”
“No. She drove Sam to his
office. His car wouldn’t start
this morning. She isn’t going
back until she takes Suzy with
her. I suppose this is rather an
awkward situation.”
He nodded under standingly.
“Divorce is always awkward
when there are children. There
isn’t much of it here. Divorce.
I mean. I suppose you’ll call
us conventional, even pro
vincial.”
“But everyone here knows
that Sam and my sister have
been divorced, don’t they?”
“Of course.” He smiled
slightly. “But people will talk,
you know, and mind other peo
ple’s business. It isn’t entirely
malicious. In large cities people
don’t know very much about
one another, while here every
body knows about the other fel
low — how Sam, for instance,
ran away from school his first
day there and hid in the shrub
brey, the time a swarm of bees
chased him all the way home
and how he looked when he
gave his first public debate in
high school. There’s little that
can be hidden in a small com
munity.”
“I know. I grew up in one in
New England.”
“I thought so. You don’t look
much like a city girl. Or maybe
you don’t like my saying that
because you’re trying to look
like one.”
I don t know how to try to
be anyone else, doctor.”
Though she smiled at him, she
felt uneasy. People were talk
ing about Teresa living in her
former husband’s house and
driving him to his office. Her
flaunted air of possessiveness,
even glimpsed from a distance,
was unmistakable. The doctor
was trying to tell her that they
didn’t like it, that they didn’t
think it quite decent according
to their standards. Perhaps
some of them were making fun
of her. And all of it together
wouldn’t be good for the strug
gling young editor, the servant
of the public. She said, “You’ve
known Sam a long time, haven’t
you?”
“Since his first lusty howl.
I've seen babies wanted and
I’ve seen them unwanted, but
I’ve never seen one wanted
more than Sam was by his par
ents.” He raised heavy lids and
looked at her. “But I can’t stay
here because while it would be
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shortly fall asleep.”
Apparently Teresa had cut
quite a figure on the village
street, for when she returned
she looked amused when she
said, “The way people stared
at me! Don’t you suppose
they’ve ever seen a mink coat
before? They’re positively
quaint. When I said, ‘This order
is for Mr. Tarrant,’ to the
butcher, his jaw dropped. ‘I’m
Mrs. Tarrant,’ I told him. He
was rather sweet. I doubt if
anyone here knows Sam and I
were divorced. How is Suzy this
morning?”
“Much better. The doctor was
here. Suzy wanted to know
where you were.” But Teresa
had not been so worried about
her child, Alison thought, that
she had forgotten to bring to
the farm a colorful and attrac
tive wardrobe. Nor did she fail
to keep in daily communication
with her office in Washington.
“I’ll go right up and see her.”
But the telephone rang and
Teresa went to answer it.
“This is Mrs. Tarrant,” Ali
son heard her say decisively.
“Yes, Mrs. Tarrant. I’m sorry,
he’s not here, but you’11 find
him at his office.”
Teresa’s possessive love re
vealing itself in any number of
ways. . . . But while her love
made her more beautiful, be
cause love is the greatest beau
tifier in the world, it gave her
no peace. It was like a forest
fire seeking new timber to
ravage. It was as though she
were tormented by the ques
tion, “What next? I must have
this and more.” Always more.
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table that for as long as Sam
had been gone, Teresa had
wanted him back. She might
have been a new person, but
she was not. The only differ
ence between the Teresa who
had said, “I’ve put all of that
out of my life forever” and the
young woman who looked at
Sam with insatiable eyes was
that her true feelings had
triumphed over her pretenses.
Sam’s quiet strength and his
reserve forbade any clear un
derstanding of his feelings. He
was by turns amusing, intro
spective, interestingly con
versational. He told them
stories of the lighter side of
war and of odd characters he
had met in France and Hol
land and Belgium. But Sam
committed himself to no one ex
cept to his child.
One day when he came home
he found Teresa mending his
old clothes. She was wonderful
at sewing. A darn could scarce
ly be seen and a patch was
hardly noticeable. He stood still
and smiled gratefully.
She said, smiling, “I had to.
I hope you’ll forgive my going
through your things, but you
left this morning with a hole
in your sock. I found a shirt
with only one button on it.”
“I’ll feel like the best-dressed
man in town when you get
through, but my inelegant
wardrobe is hardly worth your
valuable time, Teresa.”
“I can think of no more re
warding way to use it than in
this way.”
“Very nice of you to do it for
me.”
She laughed. “Stop being so
modest, darling. .You underesti
mate yourself, Sam.”
When Viola announced lunch
Teresa went in and sat at the
place that Sam’s wife would co
cupy.
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