Girl to Come Home To by Grace Livingston Hill

Author:Grace Livingston Hill [Hill, Grace Livingston]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-62836-339-5
Publisher: Barbour Publishing, Inc.
Published: 2014-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12

A couple of days later, Jeremy Graeme called up Beryl Sanderson.

“Hello there! Are you busy today, you and Diana? Because Rod and I have to take quite a drive on some business errands for Dad, and we thought you girls might like to go along. It’s business so it’s legitimate to use the gas. My sister can’t go because she has to be at the hospital all day, but Rod thought it would be great if you girls should want to go. We’re packing a lunch, coffee and sandwiches, enough for a regiment, and we thought we’d start right away if it was all right with you two. How about it? Like to go?”

“Oh, wonderful! Wait a minute till I ask Diana.”

She was back in less than a minute with a voice full of eagerness. “Yes, Diana thinks it will be wonderful, too. We’ll be ready by the time you get here.”

The two excited girls hurried up to make ready and to explain to Beryl’s mother, who seemed well pleased when she heard who they were going with.

“Take that box of candy your father brought home last night,” she said, smiling. “That will help out with the lunch.”

And so in a few minutes they were off.

It was a glorious day. One of those perfect days in the opening of spring, and the sunshine had that yellow quality that is so alluring after a long, dreary winter of cold and fog and gloom.

“It almost seems as if the war was over!” said Beryl with a relieved sigh as she settled back in the car. “Here we have real sunshine and flowers and birds and two of the best fighters home from the war.”

“Thanks awfully!” said Jeremy with a grin. “Hear that, Rod? Better salute after that.” So Rodney stood up and gravely lifted his cap. “It’s something fine to have won that title,” he said.

That was the beginning of a wonderful day. Not even an April shower to mar its loveliness.

Occasionally Beryl cast a glance over her shoulder at the backseat of the car where Diana and Rodney were sitting, deep in talk, and she couldn’t forget the last thing Diana had said to her before they left the house. “Oh, I’m just scared to death,” she had breathed as they hurried downstairs.

“Scared?” said Beryl looking surprised. “Why in the world should you be scared?”

“Why, I’m scared to talk to that wonderful man. A man who can pray as he can must be a very holy man indeed, and I’m sure he thinks I’m a little heathen. I won’t know what in the world to say to him.”

“Nonsense!” Beryl said, laughing. “He’s not like that at all. Don’t worry. You’ll get by all right.”

And there sat Diana in the backseat laughing and talking vivaciously. She seemed to be enjoying herself immensely. What’s more, the navy man looked very pleased himself. So Beryl cast off her anxieties and gave herself up to the enjoyment of the day and the company of Jeremy, whom she admired greatly.

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