The Ring by Danielle Steel

Author:Danielle Steel [Steel, Danielle]
Language: eng
Format: epub, azw3, mobi
ISBN: 978-0-307-56698-0
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2011-03-29T13:00:00+00:00

The next morning at breakfast Ariana was pensive and Manfred gazed at her quietly. It was Sunday and he didn’t have to go to work. This was Hildebrand’s Sunday on.

They went for a long walk in the Tiergarten. He induced her to try ice skates on the Neuer See, and together they glided around the ice like smiling children among the pretty women and the men in uniforms. It was difficult to believe that they were still at war.

Afterward he drove her to a café on the Kurfürstendamm, which always looked to Ariana almost exactly like the Champs-Elysées in Paris, where she had gone before the war with Gerhard and her father on a brief trip. On the Kurfürstendamm they sat down amidst the few artists and writers who were still in Berlin. There were many men in uniform, but the atmosphere was genial and Ariana stifled a happy yawn as they sat in the cozy café.

“Tired, darling?” He smiled at her, when suddenly in the distance they could hear the screech and wail of bombs. They left and walked quickly back to the car.

As they drove back along the Kurfürstendamm on their way to Wannsee, Ariana moved closer to him and tucked a hand into his arm.

“Do you see that church, Manfred?” She pointed and for an instant he took his eyes from the road. It was the familiar Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church on the Kurfürstendamm.

“Yes? Are you feeling religious at this time of night?” He was teasing and they both smiled.

“I just wanted to let you know that is the church where I want to marry you one day.”

“At the Kaiser Wilhelm?”

“Yes.” She glanced again at the pretty little diamond ring.

And he gently put an arm around her shoulders. “I’ll remember that, my love. Happy?” He looked over at her in the dark. The bombs had stopped, at least for a while.

“Never happier in my life.”

And when they got the photographs of the Christmas Eve balls, it was easy to see that she was telling Manfred the truth when she said she was happy. Her face beamed out at the camera, her head held high, her eyes bright with love, as just behind her Manfred, in full dress uniform, gazed into the camera with undisguisable pride.

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