by Angela Huth
Brenda and Evans were married a few days after Augusta Browne had gone. Happily confused by the blurring of snow and confetti in their eyes, they left for a honeymoon in Brighton.
When they returned they found that Wroughton House was already being transferred into offices, and the elms were cut down. But they weren’t very interested. They had their own home, now, and much to do to complete it. Often the convenience of the chickens – free-range birds at the bottom of the garden – seemed to come first. Bloody chickens, as Evans still thought of them, privately. They took up so much of Brenda’s time and thoughts.
Gradually they acquired furniture and curtains and potted plants all of which, Evans liked to think, Lark would have approved. Augusta Browne had given them the brass bed as a wedding present, which reminded them occasionally of their attic nights, and sometimes they wondered what had become of her. But, their long wait over, its frustrations were almost forgotten. The room at Wroughton House had been merely a part of that time of waiting, and was banished now from their minds by the present interests of their new life.
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