House Of Storm (27 page)
“Jim,” Nonie said, and went across to him. “Jim,” she said, and stopped. She’d tell them both sometime all the things that Roy had said. Not now.
Jim came to meet her. He put his arms around her close so her head pressed against his shoulder.
She knew that the doctor had gone. She pushed her head closer into the curve of Jim’s shoulder.
“The weather’s changing,” Jim said after awhile. “Listen—the wind’s going down. Morning will be sunny. And one day—one day soon, my darling, we’ll fly home, right up into the blue sky.” He broke off abruptly and thought, and said: “That’s about as near Heaven as we can get. And then we’ll come back to Middle Road. We’ll come back home.”
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