The Age of Desire by Jennie Fields

Author:Jennie Fields
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Group, Inc.
Published: 2012-08-02T04:00:00+00:00

Henry and Edith have a plan. Instead of his coming directly to Paris as usual, he’ll sail to Le Havre and take the train to Amiens, where they can enjoy the cathedral together. He writes her:

To see the cathedral in the late afternoon will be of the last refinement. And it will be adorable to have WMF—kindly tell him, with my love, how immensely I feel this.

Knowing that Henry is far too fastidious to ever act on his adulation for Morton, could never have been the older man with whom Morton dallied, Edith sees that she has been appointed his surrogate. She smiles at his note. He wants Edith and Morton to be together.

When she tells Morton about it on the telephone—all the rage she felt the last time she saw him had astonishingly melted away—he agrees to join her in picking up Henry at the train station in Amiens. “After Henry goes to bed, the rest of the night will be ours,” he says. “If you promise not to hurt me in the process.”

The morning of Henry’s arrival, however, Edith wakes, her heart pounding to the sound of a terrible deluge. Thunder. Rain rushing down the streets in torrents. Wind rattling windows. No day for a motor-flight of any kind. She immediately wires Henry to come straight to Paris instead of Amiens, and dashes off a note to Morton as well. As she sips her morning tea, she is astonished at how relieved she feels.

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