Time of the Hunter's Moon by Victoria Holt

Author:Victoria Holt [Holt, Victoria]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780449205112
Amazon: 0449205118
Barnesnoble: 0449205118
Publisher: Ivy Books
Published: 1984-11-12T00:00:00+00:00

Teresa came to me in a state of great distress.

"It's the cousins," she said. "They want me to go to them for Easter. Miss Hetherington sent for me in her study. She said she's just heard. I said I don't want to go but Miss Hetherington says I'll have to."

"Oh Teresa," I said. "Aunt Patty and Violet will be so disappointed."

"I know." There were tears in her eyes. "Violet was going to show me how to make hot cross buns."

I said: "Perhaps we can arrange something. I'll go and see Miss Hetherington."

Daisy shook her head grimly.

"I have often wondered about the wisdom of your taking Teresa home with you. I know Patience and Violet and the effect they'd have on a girl like Teresa. Poor child, she was almost demented when I told her."

I said: "Surely it can be explained to them."

"I don't think they'll change their minds. It's not that they want her. I can read between the lines. They feel they look remiss in the eyes of the parents as they are supposed to be looking after her, and two vacations away from them is a bit too much. She'll have to go for Easter and then perhaps it can be arranged that you take her in the summer holidays which are the longer ones."

"We shall be so sad. You see, she quickly became part of the household."

"That's the trouble. One has to be careful with girls like Teresa. They become so intense. She became too involved too quickly."

"It was just holidays she had with us in an ordinary little home."

"My dear Cordelia, no house is ordinary with Patience in it."

"I know. She is quite the most wonderful person.

I was so happy for Teresa to have a share in all that." "You're too sentimental. Let Teresa go for Easter and I am sure it will be all right for the summer." "Couldn't we explain it to them?"

"Explanations would make it worse. They'd feel more guilty. They are just making this gesture to preserve their kindly image with the parents. We'll have to let them this time. And perhaps Teresa will make it so that they don't want her again for a very long time." Daisy smiled grimly. "Oh come, Cordelia, it's not so tragic as all that. Just this once. Teresa has to learn that life is not a bed of roses. It'll be good for her and make her all the more appreciative of Moldenbury next time."

"She's appreciative enough already."

Daisy shrugged her shoulders. "She'll have to go," she said firmly.

Poor Teresa was heart-broken and her grief cast an air of tragedy over the rest of term.

When I waved her off with the rest of the girls the day before my departure we were both of us on the verge of tears.

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