The Quintland Sisters by Shelley Wood

Author:Shelley Wood
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-01-11T05:00:00+00:00

June 15, 1937

A TELEGRAM FROM Ivy today saying she’s canceling her trip home in order to accept an offer to speak at a nursing school in California! She says she will travel by both train and airplane to get there. I can’t imagine being so brave. I’m desperately disappointed not to see her, but perhaps she’ll have time later in the summer.

June 16, 1937

PUBLIC OBSERVATION HOURS were officially extended, so the quintuplets now play in the observation area for a full hour, twice a day, at 9:30 and 2:30. No one sees me—they only have eyes for the girls. The crowds are astonishing. The lineup for the morning viewing now starts before seven-thirty.

M. and Mme. Dionne came today during the viewing hours and insisted on sitting in the play area with all of us. It’s the first time M. Dionne has done this, although Mme. Dionne has been coming off and on for several weeks. My guess is she likes the public to see her with her famous babies, although she never joins the girls in their play. Instead she sits heavily in her chair, fanning herself in the shade, calling out to the girls and trying to get them to come and sit with her, when it’s clear they are happy with their various games and projects.

M. Dionne, meanwhile, spent every minute tugging at his ridiculous ears and frowning at the shadows moving behind the screens in the observation corridor. He bristled with anger when one of the girls ignored her mother and continued with whatever she was playing at. He seems to go out of his way to glare at me and snapped angrily at Miss Beaulieu, although whatever set him off, I’d missed. Nurse Dubois stood up from the sandbox, where she’d been watching Marie and Annette, and walked over to him and spoke with him quietly. The next minute, wouldn’t you know it—she actually had him smiling.

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