When she went into the schoolhouse the next day, she held her breath as she opened her desk drawer, praying that Robert had left a note for her. But the only note there was the one from Emma Garnett, still sitting more or less where Danica had folded it and stuck it off to one side.
Disappointment stabbed through her, although she knew that, logically, Robert would need to keep his distance from the school for a while. He’d already spotted Edmund in the neighborhood the day before their ill-fated meeting in the woods, and so he’d have to wait until he thought it safe to approach her.
And no reprieve from dinner at the Garnett household, either. Little Susan Wilcox came up to Danica and said that her mamma was looking forward to seeing Miss Prewitt for supper that night, and to remember t
