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Saying goodbye to Robert hurt far more than Danica expected — hadn’t he just gotten back in town? — but after lingering in the aspen grove some time longer, holding one another, sharing more kisses, talking quietly about what they might do after he was done with his fact-finding mission, she knew she must get back to the boarding house. There was really only so much time a person could spend gathering autumn leaves.
Speaking of which….
She hastily picked up as many as she could from the clearing, Robert smiling and pitching in to help as he went a little farther afield and also collected some from the oaks and sycamores.
Those damn sycamores again.
Of course, in her haste to get up here, she’d neglected to bring along anything like a basket to actually hold the leaves.
“Your skirt
