The moment we"d returned to our mats, Beth already had the box top off. She picked through the contents with care.
“There"s not m-much in here,” she said in a somewhat disappointed tone, and she pulled her hand out of the box.
“What did you expect?”
Beth"s tangled hair hung in front of her face as she stared at the contents of her small carton. After a moment, she shrugged. “I don"t know,” she mumbled, “something interesting!” She reached in and again stirred the items with her finger.
“Well, I"m hoping for more useful than interesting.”
usefulinteresting“Like what?” She whipped her head back, and her icy blue eyes fixed on mine for a moment. Her mouth pulled into a straight line.
I shrugged. “I don"t know. Something.”
Beth put her box down beside her and reached inside. She pulled
