Seven Years Ago
Mr Kalkowski puffs on his pipe. “So, Jenny. Are you looking forward to your wedding? To being a married woman?”
Her smile is shy. She sucks at her lips. “Yes, I am. I wasn’t sure at first, but…. well, this will be the first time I’ve had someone. Someone to call my own I mean. A family….”
Her eyes are misty and the old man’s lids droop….
Who can blame her for putting that over anything else?
And now her voice grows excited. “…. We’re even going to have our own place to live. I thought I was going to have to live with Chad’s parents until we could save up for a place of our own. But Mrs Collier’s having one of the old sheds converted to a holiday cottage and she says we can live in there for a while and pay rent with some extra work on the farm until we find our feet.”
