Fever: A Novel by Keane Mary Beth

Author:Keane, Mary Beth [Keane, Mary Beth]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2013-03-12T04:00:00+00:00

After he left, after she watched the ferry pull away from the dock and churn west, Mary went back to her spot by the water. Her snowy egret had not shown itself while Alfred was there, and stayed hidden now. She hugged her knees, feeling the hollow place that laugh had bubbled forth from earlier. If there was something funny in what he’d told her, she could no longer see it.

After a while, she realized it was getting dark, and it had started to rain again. The loose sand that met with the tree line was pressed down by the drops, and then it was pouring, the drops hitting the river so hard that the surface of the water jumped and frothed, and she hoped if his ferry had not reached the other side yet that it would fill up with this angry weather and sink. And then she hoped it wouldn’t.

Late, long after the supper hour, long after the island had gone dark, she saw electric torches approaching from the small wooded divide that separated her from the hospital. She heard voices on John’s path.

Two nurses approached her and put their umbrellas together to cover her as they walked her back. “What are you thinking, Mary?” the one asked. “What are you doing?”

The other said, “You’ll make yourself sick.”

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