Envy the Wind by Anita Davison

Author:Anita Davison
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: a friendship with lucy maud montgomery sustains, a handsome man seems a saviour then a deceiver, heiress escapes cruel guardian and flees to canada, historical prince edward island canada, purchasing a house alone in pei is a big challenge, trust and attraction must be restored, young woman opens a hotel for gentlewomen alone
Publisher: BWL Publishing Inc.

“I think of our lovely day together often now all I have to brighten the hours is my daily stroll down ‘Lover’s Lane’ towards Cavendish Road and across the fields to the sea. How I love this place, and how ungracious of me to complain when I have the good fortune to call this my home and now have you to write to, my dear Grace.”

Grace sat over a blank page for a long time compiling a response to match Maud's eloquent prose, but all she was able to produce was a laundry list of tasks she had completed at the hotel and how much more there was yet to do.

Mrs M's enquiries as to what Grace did with her spare time became more difficult to answer. She had exhausted all the more interesting areas of Charlottetown and reverted to describing the churches and the market hall.

The questioning became less intrusive with the boarding house filled to capacity after Easter with what Mrs M referred to as her 'regulars'; the travelling salesmen who spent the spring and summer on the Island, arranging orders for old clients and establishing new ones.

Their constant demands created a buzz of activity which left Marge flustered and threatening to quit. The refrain, 'There's only one of me ya know,' echoed through the halls at all times of the day.

Grace shared the bathroom with a ferrety looking man called Timmins, who described himself as 'dealing in ladies’ accoutrements'. He disguised his non-existent top lip with an outsized moustache that made Grace smile every time she saw him. Their contact was scant, apart from the time she mistakenly thought the bathroom was empty and came upon him bare-chested and in long johns. Fortunately, he had his back turned and she managed to close the door silently before he saw her.

“I hope it’s still convenient to have me staying, Mrs M,” Grace said after Marge revealed Grace’s room was usually allocated to two guests due to the vast double bed it contained.

“That's quite all right dear, it's nice to have a lady to talk to apart from Marge. The men need more looking after than you do, what with all the mess they make of their rooms.”

Maud’s explanation of ‘blind pigs’ in basements provided Grace with a source of private amusement she chose not to share with her landlady.

“Another church social this evening, Mrs M?” Grace called over the bannister when she came upon her carrying a loaded tray down to the basement room.

“Only a small one this evening, dear.” Mrs M flushed and hurried away, leaving Grace smiling at the way her untidy bun bobbed up and down on her head.

In response to a note delivered to the boarding house one morning, Grace set off for Wright’s store. The wallpaper she ordered from Montreal had finally arrived and she wanted to inspect it before it was collected by the workmen and taken to the house. She set off under a warm spring sky free of clouds, dressed

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