He was smart enough to know I might not approve if I thought he’d approached my mom for money. Instead he told me that Tess of the D’Urbervilles wasn’t his favorite Thomas Hardy and he’d been disappointed when it was chosen at book club, but he didn’t like to overrule the less literary among us. How about a rip-roaring adventure yarn next? He suggested Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson. Outside Nags Head, Highway 12 runs along the shore and through the Hatteras National Seashore. It’s a long way to the next town, tiny, picturesque Rodanthe. At night the road’s dark and quiet. A single vehicle passed us, throwing light into the interior of our car. I glanced at Theodore. His eyes were fixed on the road ahead, his hands firm in the acceptable ten-and-two position on the steering wheel. If my mom, for some completely unknown reason, was intent on setting me up with Theodore, the poor guy didn’t know any more about it than I did. He didn’t get out of the car to see me to my door, but watched until I was safely inside.
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