The Way We Were by Marcia Willett

Author:Marcia Willett
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: FIC000000
Publisher: McArthur & Company Publishing Limited
Published: 2011-04-11T10:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER TEN

2004

In Tavistock, Caroline shut the door of the terraced house in Chapel Street and set off into the town. Wonderful though it was to have Zack home again, she liked these moments when she left him busy with some project and went shopping alone. Zack wasn't a shopper; he didn't care much for sitting in a café idly drinking coffee when he could be getting on at home. Probably this was because he had so little time at home but, whatever the reason, Caroline was happy on this warm, sunny morning. She paused in West Street to look at the pretty linen clothes in the window of Wandering Nomads and then strolled on past the church and crossed Bedford Square where the stalls of the farmers’ market had been set up. Caroline lingered beside the mouth-watering displays of cheese and preserves and crisp fresh vegetables but shook her head smilingly at the vendors’ banter; she'd buy one or two treats on the way back so that she didn't have to carry the bags too far.

‘Are you sure you won't need help?’ Zack had asked anxiously. ‘Should you be carrying heavy things?’

She'd assured him that she'd be fine; she was warmed by his concern but looking forward to her foray to the shops. After all, she had no intention of weighing herself down with heavy groceries – they'd do the supermarket run together later with the car – and it was hardly any distance to walk back home. She knew how lucky they were to be renting the cottage in Chapel Street; the owners, another naval couple, had been posted to Washington and were only too pleased to let their house to Zack and Caroline, especially as Zack had offered to undertake some of the landscaping work for the garden in their absence. It would be even nicer if it were their own house, of course, but with prices as they were this was a dream yet to be achieved. Meanwhile it was such fun to wander out like this, while Zack was laying paving slabs in the garden. He'd be enjoying himself; at breakfast he'd been busy with sketches and measurements, working it out, quite content for her to leave him to it.

She'd learned early on that he liked to have some kind of project; something to work at when he was on leave. He had terrific vitality and needed to push himself physically, though he wasn't particularly social outside his own close circle of friends. Well, that was fine: so far she'd managed to maintain a fine balance between her own natural friendliness and his reticence, just as he prevented her from being too lazy. Of course, she missed her family in Edinburgh, and the gossip of the staff-room at school, but this move to Tavistock was an exciting new stage in her and Zack's lives together and it was a bonus to have Zack's family near at hand, especially Liv. Right from the beginning she and Liv had got on really well.

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