He looked even more bewildered.
Myrtle bit back a sigh. “Glynis seemed unhappy with you.”
Holden’s features cleared. “Oh, you mean when she yelled out that I was basically good-for-nothing. Yes, that was bad. But Glynis’s feelings for me were pretty well-known. I think she told just about everybody about them. You’d think she’d have been happy that I was working an honest job with honest wages.”
“But she wasn’t?”
“No,” said Holden. “She’d apparently expected Faith to marry a doctor or a lawyer or somebody.”
“That must have really annoyed you.”
Holden shrugged. “Not really. It was a little hurtful, but it wasn’t something to really get worked up about. I never really cared what Glynis thought about my job. But it bothered me that she was so worked up during the reception. Faith had w
