If You Are There by Susan Sherman

Author:Susan Sherman
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781619029750
Publisher: Counterpoint
Published: 2016-11-18T05:00:00+00:00

The next evening Arlington took Sapia out for an early supper at Café Tortoni. He knew she would like it because it was only a few blocks from the opera and she enjoyed watching the fancy carriages drive by while she ate. She sat in the chair opposite, not bothering to keep up her end of the conversation, watching the parade of plumed horses trot by with their liveried footmen standing on the footboards or riding in the rumble. Once the food came she ate mechanically and afterward ordered her customary ice.

“I know it will be fine, Arlington. I am not to worry.”

“Of course, you’ll be wonderful. You’re always wonderful.”

“Yes. I know that. And John assures me that all will be well. I contacted him last night before I went to bed. Did I tell you?”

He nodded and took a sip of wine. It was the third time she mentioned it.

“He said that he has it all arranged. I will be as usual. Of course, I will be wonderful. When am I not, eh?”

Arlington told her that he was not worried, not one bit, and that everything would be fine. He managed to sound convincing, even though in truth he had a bad case of the jitters and for a good reason. Cambridge started out this way, with a blank, then assurances and denials, and finally the withering fear of another blank. He couldn’t go through that again, the mortification, the derisive looks, and later the formal accusations in the journals. He remembered, after the humiliating event, standing by the front door. No one to see them off—only the parlor maid, who handed them their coats and sent them out into the night to find their own way home. No, he was never going through that again.

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