Late afternoon on Monday came around all too quickly for Mary and when it got to almost four in the afternoon, she considered going to the schoolhouse to see Annie. After a few minutes of deliberation, she eventually backed away from the idea. She knew what her fellow teacher’s advice would be to her concerns about Tom and that would be to give in to her impulses. It wasn’t really what she wanted to hear if she was completely honest. Doing that would result in so many problems that she could think about and her instinct was to try and avoid them if she could.
On the other hand that instinct didn’t exactly serve her too well when she was trapped in the corner of the schoolhouse by Tom and she succumbed to his kiss without so much as a whimper of protest. The uppermost concern in her mind w
