Danielle Steel: Historical Classics: 3-Novel Bundle: Jewels, No Greater Love, and Zoya by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel [Steel, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Romance, Sagas, Classics, Contemporary, Fiction
ISBN: 9780345533814
Google: 07wmjV8f--MC
Amazon: B005RUCQRI
Barnesnoble: B005RUCQRI
Publisher: Dell
Published: 2011-09-27T04:00:00+00:00

Chapter 15

THE TRAIN STOOD IN THE STATION WITH ALL OF THE WINFIELDS standing in Phillip’s compartment. Ben had come too, and Mrs. Barnes, and a handful of Phillip’s friends, and two of his favorite teachers. It was a big day for him. He was leaving for Harvard.

“You’ll write, won’t you?” Edwina felt like a mother hen, and then asked him in an undertone if he had all his money hidden in the money belt she’d given him. He grinned and ruffled her elegant hairdo. “Stop that!” she scolded, as he went to talk to two of his friends, and she chatted with Ben, and tried to keep George from climbing out the window. She couldn’t see Alexis then, and a faint wave of panic rose in her, remembering another time when Alexis had disappeared, but a moment later she saw her with Mrs. Barnes, staring sadly at the brother who was about to leave them. Fannie had cried copiously the night before, and at three and a half even Teddy knew he was being deserted.

“Can I come too?” he asked hopefully, but Phillip only shook his head and gave him a ride on his shoulders. He could touch the ceiling in the compartment then, and he chortled happily as Edwina pulled Fannie closer to her. They were all sad to realize that the group at home was shrinking. To Edwina, it felt like the beginning of the end, but that morning, she had reminded Phillip of how proud their father would have been, it was an important moment in his life, and one he should always be proud of.

“You’ll never be quite the same,” she had tried to explain to him, but he didn’t yet understand what she meant. “The world will grow, and you’ll see us differently when you come home. We’ll seem very small to you, and very provincial.” She was wise for her years, and the long talks she’d had with her father for years had given her a perspective that was rare for a woman. It was something Charles had loved about her from the first, and something Ben admired greatly. “I’ll miss you terribly,” she said to Phillip again, but she had promised herself not to cry and make it harder for him. More than once, he’d offered not to go at all, and to stay and help her with the children. But she wanted him to have this opportunity. He needed it, he had a right to it, just as their father had, and his father before him.

“Good luck, son.” Ben shook his hand as the conductor began calling, “All aboard.” And Edwina felt her heart fill with tears, as he called good-bye to his friends, shook hands with his teachers, and then turned to kiss the children.

“Be good,” he said soberly to little Fannie, “be a good girl, and listen to Edwina.”

“I will,” she said seriously, two big tears rolling down her cheeks. For over a year, he had been like a father to her, not just an older brother.

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