Return to Franklin Hill by Elizabeth Walker Jennings

Author:Elizabeth Walker Jennings [Walker Jennings, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780692351628
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 2014-01-16T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Eighteen

“So you met the Lancelot the Lecher?” Ellie snickered as she sat with Grace, wrapping Christmas gifts for her children. The dining room table was covered with wrapping paper, a different design assigned to each child to keep presents from being confused. Ellie rolled out a colorful sheet of ice-skating polar bears for her youngest child and reached for the cellophane tape, a DVD held between her teeth.

“Lecher is right.” Grace wiped the back of her hand reflexively, remembering the sloppy kiss, while Ellie laughed outright, the DVD landing in the floor.

“Nola Brayton seems to like him.”

“Nola Brayton’s husband is about worn out from dealing with Nola, I suspect.” They both shook their heads.

“Have you heard from little Babe?” Grace asked.

“She called this morning. You’ll probably be talking to her next.”

“So? When?” Abbreviated speech, resulting from years of sisterly mind-reading, Ellie knew Grace was asking for the wedding date.

“Christmas Eve, in the Woods Chapel. But you’d better let her tell you or I’ll be in trouble.”

“Granny will love that.” Though the girls were raised as Catholics, something their mother had agreed to when she converted to Catholicism in order to marry their father, Granny Stillwell was a Methodist and the Chapel in the Woods, while small, was her own church.

“That’s nothing. They’re bringing their own minister. And she’s a woman.” Ellie relayed.

“How big a wedding? Not too many people available Christmas Eve, but we’ll be there.” Grace wasn’t terribly concerned, as Babe certainly cut her own path through life and didn’t base many decisions on ceremony, even a marriage ceremony.

“Put on your cowboy boots, girl. We’re all standing up with her.”

“ALL of us?” Grace squawked.

“That’s what she said. All three of us. Maybe...” Ellie’s eyes twinkled, “...she’ll let us wear jeans.”

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