WE’LL TAKE A CUP OF KINDNESS YET
NOVEMBER 1922
Anxious, Meg called up the stairs, “Annie! We must hurry. He’ll be home any moment now!”
Annie responded with something unintelligible. Meg rapped the bannister with the flat of her hand and returned to the kitchen.
David sat at the table, nervously fiddling with a new hard collar and pale blue tie. Annie had bought him new clothes to walk her down the aisle, and while they looked like a good fit, he seemed tormented by them. Jinny wore a new pale blue hat and coat, matching gloves and bag sat on the table, next to a box of corsages for Annie’s four sisters and their mother’s sister, Aunt Jane.
Meg folded her arms. “You’d think she wanted him to find us on our way to her ‘secret’ wedding.”
“Her and her stupid b****y lie about us going to
