A Child Lost by Michelle Cox

Author:Michelle Cox [Cox, Michelle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781631528361
Publisher: She Writes Press
Published: 2020-05-15T04:00:00+00:00

As expected, Fritz had parked the Rolls halfway down the street and upon seeing her walk toward him, quickly got out of the car to open the door for her.

“I trust you had a pleasant time, madame.”

“Yes, thank you, Fritz,” she said. “I’m sorry it was so long. I didn’t expect it to be.”

“No trouble at all, madame,” he said with a slight bow before walking around to the driver’s side and getting in.

Henrietta set the bag of pound cake on the seat beside her and looked out the window at the neighborhood that used to be hers, many thoughts going through her mind as Fritz pulled out onto California. At the forefront of her mind was poor Rose’s dilemma. She felt sorry for Rose, of course, but she couldn’t help but feel sorry for Stan as well, whom she knew was being used in this situation. She could hardly blame Rose for wanting to escape her miserable situation, but would such a marriage really work? She supposed most marriages ended up being unhappy ones. She didn’t want that for Stan and Rose, but how could a marriage built on so flimsy a foundation not end up as such? Especially if Rose didn’t really like men in the first place . . .

Henrietta watched a woman walk down the street, holding a child by the hand, until she stepped into Woolworth’s with him. Mrs. Hennessey’s playful criticism of her and Clive not “getting busy” to produce a child (and thus a pseudo-grandchild for them) had initially stung a bit, but it had dissipated when she reflected that she should have just told Mrs. Hennessey the truth, that she had been pregnant but had lost it. Surely Mrs. Hennessey would have been more than sympathetic. And now that the opportunity had passed, Henrietta desperately wished that she’d had the courage to do so, as it would have been nice to be comforted by this woman who had been more of a mother to her than Ma. Why hadn’t she? she fretted. But, then again, she reasoned, she had not really had the chance. Not with the discussion so heavily centered on Rose and Stan and also Winifred. Actually, Henrietta mused, she was surprised that talking about Winifred and her new baby was less painful than expected. Did that mean she was finally getting better? She thought she had been, but then the whole encounter with Mrs. Wojcik and Madame Pavlovsky had stirred it all up again.

The windows were beginning to fog up, blurring her vision of the outside world they were passing, so she wiped the one nearest to her with her gloved fist and peered out. It was an uncharacteristically warm day, and the snow was beginning to finally turn slushy. She unwrapped the scarf from around her neck, her mind drifting back to Dunning and the melancholy women that had, through one circumstance or another, ended up there, a fate Henrietta felt would be worse than death. How would

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