Twice in a Lifetime by Marta Perry

Author:Marta Perry [Perry, Marta]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Fiction, Romance, General, Religious
ISBN: 9781426839689
Google: 7xOktaKYUQAC
Publisher: Harlequin
Published: 2009-08-31T16:00:00+00:00

“Don’t be foolish, child.” Miz Callie’s voice was as tart as it ever got. “If he’d come to you, asked you to help him, of course you’d have done it, wouldn’t you?”

She nodded. Of course she would. “That wasn’t James’s way. He didn’t ask. He took.”

“Not a good quality in a husband, I’d say. And if your mamma had thought it through, she’d say the same. Goodness, she wouldn’t want someone like that in the family.”

Wouldn’t she? Georgia wasn’t so sure of that, but she felt stronger knowing that Miz Callie understood.

Lindsay came running up to them and flopped down on a towel at Miz Callie’s feet. “Hot.” She pushed damp hair back from her forehead.

“You need to spend a little time in the shade, sugar.” Miz Callie handed her a water bottle. “Goodness, what was I thinkin’, letting you stay out in the heat this long?”

Lindsay leaned against her knee. “Tell me a story, please? About when you were a little girl on the island.”

Georgia’s attention sharpened. That was what she wanted to hear, too, but they had different reasons.

Miz Callie smiled, her eyes seeming to focus on the past. “When I was a little girl, the island was so different, you couldn’t imagine.” The smile faded a little. “That was a long time ago, back in the 1940s. We were at war then.” She touched Lindsay’s hair lightly. “I pray you never have to experience that.”

“I know about that. I have a doll that my Grammy gave me, with a book about living then.”

“It was hard all over. Here, the military took over a lot

of the island. Why, there were folks in uniform everywhere you looked, and big guns along the shore in places.” Lindsay’s eyes grew wide. “What were the guns for?” “Folks said the enemy might bring their submarines in real close.” Miz Callie caught herself, probably thinking that might not be a suitable story for a child. “Anyway, it was exciting for us kids. We played just like we always had, except for our parents being more particular about us

getting in early.”

“I don’t like to go in while it’s still light out,” Lindsay observed. “Except Daddy lets me watch television.”

“We didn’t have television then, you know. We had the radio, and sometimes we’d listen to that.” She shook her head. “Funny. I s’pose the parents listened to the news, but all I remember hearing is the music. ‘Tangerine,’ played by the Jimmy Dorsey band. That was one we listened to over and over.”

Miz Callie’s memory of those days seemed to be getting clearer and clearer.

“Did you go swimming in the ocean?” Lindsay prompted, apparently not interested in long-ago radio programs.

“We went swimming, sure thing. And crabbing. We loved to go crabbing. One of the older boys would take us.” A faint shadow crossed her face, and Georgia knew she was thinking of Ned. “We’d bring back a mess of crabs and then have a crab boil, right here on the beach.”

“That sounds so fun.” Lindsay’s tone was wistful.

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