No one took any note that two former soldiers roomed together. During the day Fox went his way and I went mine. And there was no one to see what went on during the night.
I noticed occasionally that Fox would be missing from our bed, but I concluded he’d been out on a house call.
I did worry how Mother would treat Fox, simply because she had never warmed to Thomas, but the fact that he was a doctor eased his path. Both Mother and Grandmother would corner him whenever we arrived for holiday dinners and would question him about various aches and pains.
And Fox…sweet man that he was…good-naturedly answered them all.
Grandmother had invited us to come celebrate her birthday, and Fox and I arrived with flowers, chocolates, and bottles of wine, as well as a pair of Royal Worcester porcelain
