Summer Campaign by Carla Kelly

Author:Carla Kelly
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Published: 2012-10-07T04:00:00+00:00

The workmen were creating a vast distraction on the roof later that morning when there was another knock at the door. Onyx opened it, and before her stood a little man in a shiny suit, carrying a large leather satchel. He bowed elaborately. “I am Signor Sabbacini,” he said, “and I have come to tune your piano.”

Onyx clapped her hands and pulled the startled man into the house. Her eyes filled with tears for the second time that morning. “Oh, do come in, signore. I cannot express in words how welcome you are.”

Sabbacini set down his valise and stalking around the piano, eyed it like a matador would a bull. He touched it, stroked the wood, and examined the hammers, making small cooings of appreciation that sounded almost like the twittering of evening birds. At last he stopped his minute perusal, took off his coat, and rolled up his sleeves.

“To work, excellent lady, to work,” he said. “This will be a pleasure.”

“Oh, yes,” she exclaimed. “I do not know how I will ever thank Lady Bagshott. Especially after I was so rude.”

He stared at her. “What has Lady Bagshott to do with this?” he demanded. “The good major, he told me about your piano. He said that he wished he could hear you play, but that he was in a hurry.” Sabbacini patted his breast pocket. “He paid me in advance. I might have even cheated him. Leave me, now. I have work to do.”

She left the parlor and sat down with a thump at the foot of the stairs. “Thank you, Jack,” she said out loud. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart.” She put her fingers to her lips, thought of his kiss, and realized that baking soda and water was a poor remedy for her discomfort.

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