12/50 Think of that--a woman--with all those wise men! She asked father's leave. He just looked at her, and I saw the tears come into her eyes. He seems to lean upon her in a new way--and she looks different somehow--happier, I think. He told me, the day after Desmond died, that Dezzy had said something to him that had given him courage--"courage to go on," I think he said. I didn't ask him what he meant, and he didn't tell me. |