12/28 If you take me with you, you'll spoil my holidays!'" Joan shot back in her chair. She wouldn't have repeated the words, because she had been taught them. No, she meant them." "But a day or two with you and she would have forgotten them. Oh, she _did_ forget them!" In her great longing to comfort the woman, whose deep anguish she divined beneath the quiet desolation of her voice, Joan overleapt her own knowledge. |