Danielle Steel by No Greater Love

Author:No Greater Love [Love, No Greater]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Transportation, Historical Fiction, Contemporary, Ships & Shipbuilding, Sea Stories, Historical, Shipwrecks, Titanic (Steamship)
ISBN: 9780440213284
Google: wqUDsL8x5pAC
Amazon: B001TLZESC
Barnesnoble: B001TLZESC
Publisher: Dell
Published: 1991-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter 17

THE TRAIN PULLED INTO THE STATION ON THE FOURTEENTH OF June, 1914, and Edwina stood behind George, waving as hard as she could, while Phillip hung out of his compartment window grinning at them. It felt like a thousand years since he’d been home, instead of the nine months he had just spent completing his freshman year at Harvard.

He was on the platform before anyone else, his arms around them all, and Edwina felt tears roll down her cheeks, as George let out a wild whoop of glee, and the little ones jumped up and down shouting in the excitement. Alexis just stood there and grinned, staring at him in disbelief, as though she’d been sure he would never come back again, in spite of everything Edwina had said, and her promises that he would be back home again in time for summer.

“Hi there, little love.” He turned quietly toward Alexis, and hugged her to him, as she just closed her eyes and beamed. He was home again, and all was right with the world for all of them. It was like a dream come true, and George punched him in the chest and pulled his hair at least a dozen times as Phillip grinned at him and put up with it. He was just so happy to be home, he could hardly stand it.

And as he climbed back on the train and passed his things to George through the compartment window, Edwina realized how much bigger and broader he had grown in the year that he’d been gone. He looked sophisticated and poised and very grown up. He was clearly a man now. He was nearly nineteen, and suddenly he looked even older.

“What are you looking at, Sis?” He glanced over George’s head and she smiled and saluted him.

“Looks like you did some growing up while you were away. You look alright.” Their eyes were the same blue, and she knew that they both looked a great deal like their mother.

“You look pretty good too,” he admitted grudgingly, and he didn’t tell her that he had dreamed of coming home, almost every night. But he liked Harvard too. Ben Jones had been right, it was wonderful just being there, but there were times when it seemed like it was on a different planet than California. And it was so far away. Four days by train. It seemed to take an eternity to get here. He had spent Christmas with his roommate’s family in New York that year, and he had been desperately homesick for Edwina and the children, though not quite as lonely as they were for him. And there were times when Edwina wondered if Alexis would survive it.

Phillip noticed that Ben wasn’t there, and raised an eyebrow as they walked to the car parked just outside the station. “Where’s Ben?”

“He’s away. In L.A.” She smiled. “But he said to send his love. He’d probably love to have lunch with you sometime, to talk about Harvard.” And she wanted to hear about it too.

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