Montgomery 06 - Wishes by Jude Deveraux

Author:Jude Deveraux [Deveraux, Jude]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781439194751
Publisher: Pocket
Published: 2010-05-25T05:00:00+00:00

"They were on the floor."

Terel put her hand to her mouth in horror. "Oh, no, Nellie, is that what caused you to slip? I bought the marbles to take to the Taggert children. I thought it might help the Taggerts to forgive me for what happened last year. I never thought—"

Terel said more, but Nellie wasn't listening. Part of her was telling herself that she should have known that something would happen to ruin this evening. She had wanted it too much for it to have come about.

Another part of her was enraged. How could Terel have done this to her?

"It was an accident," she muttered to herself.

"Of course it was an accident," Terel said, indignant. "You don't think that I—that I could have…" She put her hands over her face. "Nellie, how could you hate me so much as to think that I could have wanted to ruin your dress? Why would I have wanted to hurt you?"

Nellie's anger left her as she hugged Terel. "I'm sorry. Of course it was an accident. Of course you wouldn't have done something like this." She looked down at her dress. Now she wouldn't be able to go to the ball, for she had no other dress at all suitable.

Terel pushed away from Nellie. "We must hurry and find you something else to wear. The men will be here soon."

"I have nothing else," Nellie said tiredly.

"Then you'll have to wear something of mine. You can wear my green gown. The color will look good on you."

Nellie was trying to keep her dignity. "I could not possibly wear one of your dresses. I'm too… I'm not your size."

"Oh," Terel said, looking at Nellie. "I don't guess we can even let out the seams enough. We'll just have to borrow a dress. Now, who in town is your size?"

"No one is my size," Nellie said, fighting tears. "No one at all."

"Mrs. Hutchinson," Terel said thoughtfully. "Yes, that's it, we'll go to Mrs. Hutchinson and—"

Mrs. Hutchinson was a horrid old woman who lived on the edge of town. She was three hundred pounds if she was an ounce, and she dressed like a man and smelled like the pigs she raised. It was rumored that in her younger days she had been a mule skinner.

"No," Terel said, "Mrs. Hutchinson would never have a ball gown. But who else in town is as large as you?"

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