The Ladies' Room by Carolyn Brown

Author:Carolyn Brown [Brown, Carolyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Tags: Romance, Contemporary, Fiction, General, Love Stories, Domestic Fiction, Family Life, Dwellings, Inheritance and Succession, Families, Married Women, Dwellings - Remodeling
ISBN: 9781612186429
Publisher: AmazonEncore
Published: 2011-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Except for boasting more two-story homes that were in beautiful condition, the little town of Jefferson, Texas, didn't look all that different from Tishomingo. All the same, I felt like a sugared-up six-year-old on Christmas. Freedom surged through my veins as I tried to see everything at once.

Then Billy Lee parked the van in front of an antebellum home, and I saw that there was definitely something in Jefferson that Tishomingo didn't have. Looking at that gorgeous place practically made me hyperventilate. I know it raised my blood pressure twenty points. The sign out front said it was Scarlett O'Hardy's Bed-and-Breakfast, but it looked like Scarlett O'Hara's Tara. I'd read Gone With the Wind when I was fifteen and once a year since. It's my favorite book, and sitting there in front of a replica of Tara was like a dream come true.

"It's gorgeous. Can we tour it?" I whispered.

Billy Lee got out of the van and opened the door for me. "I made reservations for you to have Miss Scarlett's room. I'll be staying in the general's room."

"We're staying here?" I asked breathlessly.

"I thought you might like it, but there are other options."

"Oh, no! I want to stay here. Really, I do." I hopped out of the van and walked beside him up to the porch. The reverence in my heart was akin to what I felt walking into church on Sunday morning. This was Tara rebuilt. Scarlett's spirit probably lived on in the walls, along with Rhett Butler's.

I didn't drool all over the front of my shirt when we walked up onto the porch, but that was an absolute miracle. If I'd had to speak or stand in front of a firing squad, I would have put the blindfold on and said my last prayer. We were met at the door by a man dressed like an antebellum butler who took our luggage straight up the stairs. As we followed him, I noticed green velvet drapes like Miss Ellen's po'teers at Tara in a sitting room.

The butler swung open the doors to Miss Scarlett's room and stepped aside. Billy Lee leaned on the doorjamb and watched me make a complete fool of myself. I squealed like a little girl and didn't care if Mamie rose from the grave and scolded me for acting like a heathen. I was right in the middle of a copy of Scarlett's bedroom.

"Cammie King slept here many years ago. She played Bonnie Blue in the movie," the man said.

"Like it?" Billy Lee asked.

"Oh, Billy Lee, I love it. It's absolutely wonderful. I feel like a southern belle."

"I'll show you to your room now," the man said to Billy Lee.

Before I could say another word, Billy Lee and the man were gone, and the door was shut. I shut my eyes and turned around slowly. I opened them to see a room filled with antique furnishings, including a plush bed with an elegant headboard, a fainting couch in the bay window, antique light fixtures, and an oak mantel.

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