The Sight of the Stars by Belva Plain

Author:Belva Plain
Language: eng
Format: mobi
ISBN: 9780440334736
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2003-12-30T06:00:00+00:00

When Sabine had wanted a huge, glamorous wedding at her house, Emma had pointed out that they did not know a huge number of people to invite. But Sabine had assured her that now, with all of Adam’s new contacts, it would be easy to have at least two hundred fifty guests.

“I’ll have a dance floor laid on the back lawn with a tent if it rains, or then we could easily move indoors. Goodness knows, the house is large enough.”

“Do you like the idea?” Adam had asked Emma in private.

“No. And I wouldn’t like it any time, but especially now with the country at war. It doesn’t seem fit. Let’s have a small wedding and invite only the people who mean something to us.”

Adam telephoned to his father. “By now you must have my letter,” he said, “so you know all about Emma and me. And you understand why I didn’t mention her in front of Jon and Blanche that evening. But we want to get married very soon and have some time together before I may have to go where Jon is. Do you want to tell Blanche? Tell her she’s invited if she wants to come. I don’t know her as you do, so I can’t decide what’s best. I don’t even know whether you and Leo want to come to the wedding, Pa. I’m saying this because I want you to tell me truly. You won’t hurt us if you say no.”

“I’ve been looking at Emma’s picture. I hope she is as good to you as she is beautiful. And I can’t tell you how glad I am. But I guess you know. You didn’t have a great start in life. I still think about it, God forgive me. Surely I want to be there to see you married, but it just doesn’t seem possible to work out. I can’t bring myself to mention the subject to Blanche. She is so miserable, poor thing, so lonesome for Jon. She worries me. And you know Leo would never go to a wedding, not yours or anybody’s, or to any other social event. He only likes to come home from the store and hide with his books.”

Jon wrote:

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