One Summer at Deer's Leap by Elizabeth Elgin

Author:Elizabeth Elgin [Elizabeth Elgin]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780007397983
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers

In spite of all the shortages and most young men being away at war and the Post Office staff cut by almost half, there was a delivery of letters on Christmas morning.

Rosamund saw the envelope at once; not only because it stood out white against the OHMS buff-coloured ones, but because she had known it would be there. He had promised to write.

She held the letter to her cheek, then pushed it into the back pocket of her overalls to stay there, deliciously tantalizing, until she could be alone to open it.

‘Happy Christmas, sweetheart,’ she whispered.

A bomber flew over low, and she flinched at the suddenness of it, and closed her eyes as the noise it made beat inside her head.

‘No!’ They couldn’t be flying ops! Not on Christmas night? Surely, for just twenty-four hours the bombers could be grounded!

She started the tractor, revving it into an answering roar, glad that Jon was on leave. She wriggled herself comfortable on the cold iron seat, and the letter crackled intimately beneath her bottom.

‘Did I wish you a happy Christmas, Sergeant Hunt, darling? Did I …?’

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