Evening Snow Will Bring Such Peace by Richards David Adams

Author:Richards, David Adams [Richards, David Adams]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Emblem Editions
Published: 1991-01-02T05:00:00+00:00

There was a general excitement over Vera’s pregnancy.

Everything was already done for Vera’s baby – everything was already collected – money was already sent and people were already talking about who the baby would look like. Things were largely done that were done everywhere when a pregnancy occurs. And Vera and Nevin were happy that everything was the same.

Now the house that hadn’t been a major priority before became one, and it was redone. Because she was pregnant, the whole idea was that she and Nevin knew all along that they would have a child – and that their child was wanted because it was planned for, was a common consensus.

Only Vera seemed to realize that this wasn’t quite the way it happened. Of all the doctors they discussed things with, only Dr. Hennessey maintained that she might get pregnant, and the old doctor was the only one they didn’t take seriously. Nor did he care if they did.

One night, a couple of weeks earlier, Nevin stayed out until morning. She knew he was now preoccupied with money, and making money. She waited up almost until dawn. When she woke, she was in the spare bedroom and he was sitting looking at her. Nevin had not been home all night – and here he was with his boots, which he prized so much, covered in mud, and his eyes glassy.

“Good morning, Vera,” he said tipping a bottle of wine to his lips.

“What do you mean?” Vera said. “Where were you last night –”

“I joined Antony as partners.”

“You what?”

“I drank Hermit wine and joined Antony.”

Then he reached down and stroked the ears of the rabbit that had followed him down the hallway.

“Well, go to bed,” Vera said.

Then he spoke so rapidly that she had trouble following what he said: “We’re going to get a big hose and suck every clam alive into it and sell them and make a million dollars.”

He looked serious even though she laughed. Then he tipped the bottle to his lips and looked about the room, with its bright new paint, and its crib, as if he’d never seen it before.

“And we will too,” he said.

“Well, do what you can,” she said, smiling. “Go to bed–”

“Bed,” he said. “Of course you don’t want to listen to me. You know nothing about it – how could you know.” He looked at her sadly while sunlight fell on his boots. “How could you know,” he said, cutting an imaginary line with his flat hand through the sunlight, and hiccupping, “if you paid ’tention to me.”

“Well – I do,” she said.

“No – you don’t,” he said solemnly, and he rose and wobbled down the hall, stopping now and then because of imaginary barriers.

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