Maggie Sweet by Judith Minthorn Stacy

Author:Judith Minthorn Stacy
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
ISBN: 9780061747199
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2007-01-20T22:00:00+00:00

She just looked at me. “Well, Lord, Maggie. I can’t believe it! I thought you wanted to go. You’ve said so all week.”

I had hurt her feelings, the last thing I’d wanted to do. “Mary Price, I’m sorry. I want to go. I do. It’s just…Steven’s in a snit, he hasn’t spoken to me in two days. Then this morning, Amy had a fit and ran out of the house.”

“Is that all?” she said, lighting a Virginia Slim.

“Isn’t that enough?”

“So Steven’s mad. So what? Hoyt’s mad at me half the time and the sun still comes up in the morning. Besides, teenagers are supposed to pitch fits. That’s their job. ’Course I have to admit Amy’s extra good at her job. But you can’t let them get away with it.”

“It’s just…I hate when people get mad at me.”

“Lord, Maggie. You’ve spent your whole life letting everyone tell you what to do. No offense, honey, but you even let your daddy tell you how to live your life and the Lord and everyone else knows that Smilin’ Jack Sweet doesn’t have the sense God gave a goose.”

Before I could defend Daddy she went on. “’Course you were only a child then, so I’ll make some allowances. But you’re grown now. Why, before I’d let my husband or child or anyone tell me what to do I’d dye my hair green and go braless to the Winn-Dixie. Just ask Hoyt Bumbalough if I wouldn’t. I mean, what’s Amy going to do about it? What’s Steven going to do? Hit you? Chain you up in the basement? Thousands of women go out without their husbands every night of the week.”

“It’s not like that. Steven’s a good man. He’d never hit me. It’s just when he goes around not speaking, it makes me feel like pure crud.”

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