The Wedding Dress by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel
Language: eng
Format: azw3, mobi, epub
Tags: Romance, Fiction
ISBN: 9780399179600
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2020-04-28T00:00:00+00:00

“I’m serious,” she said again as her eyes lit up with excitement. “What if we open a really high-end antique store?”

“Here?” It was a quiet community, and no one had fancy antiques worthy of Versailles at Lake Tahoe.

“No, in San Francisco. We could rent a shop in the right neighborhood. People have money now, and they’re willing to spend it. We have enough in the barn to supply a store for a couple of years.”

“And when we run out of your parents’ things?” He looked skeptical. It sounded a little crazy to him. Selling them at auction would be simpler.

“Then we go to Europe and buy more. The war will be over by then. I suspect there will be a lot of people there who have lost their fortunes, and will have to sell their chateaux and will want to sell their antiques. People don’t live like my parents did anymore. They want smaller homes, simpler things, but there must be a market for beautiful things, for people with money, just not on the grand scale that we grew up with. I don’t think any of us realized how remarkable it was. It seemed normal to us then. It was the only life we knew. We were the children of a golden era. I think we could have a very successful business with an antique store,” and it was something he could do too. He could help her run the business end, and he didn’t have to be able to walk to be an antique dealer. “What do you think?”

“Do you really want to be a merchant?” he asked, looking surprised and she laughed at him.

“Don’t be such a snob. You sound like my father, or my grandparents. Yes, I do. I’m not afraid to be ‘engaged in commerce,’ as my grandmother would have said. I’d love to try it. We could open a shop instead of my going back to teaching. And if it doesn’t work and no one buys anything, we give up the store and send everything to auction. Why not give it a try?” He thought about it and started to be intrigued by the idea. Successful businesses had started in stranger ways, and they certainly had more than enough merchandise to get started.

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