11 Tattoos and awakenings
Days went by slowly, blurring among small chores such as washing dishes, dusting, making up the rooms, even shoveling the snow that accumulated overnight on the porch, if needed.
Sometimes, Alice indulged in a cup of coffee, drawn from Doc's personal reserve, or in a book. Since her room was full of them, she was spoiled for choice.
Surprised at first to find authors she had always wanted to read, she had dived headlong in Jane Austen's works. She didn't like Emma, and found her arrogant until the end, but when she started Pride and Prejudice, needless to say, she fell in love with all the characters, from the major to the minor ones. Even Mrs. Bennet, the mother, had seemed adorable, though Alice’s heart had been stolen by Darcy, the presumptuous nobleman w
