Maybe a few glances darted in the other direction, toward the Speck seats, but Lucinda felt the scrutiny of her neighbors as though pinpricks of fire broke out all over her body. Like a rash.Of course they stared. Everyone in town knew about the wedding. At least, they knew there’d been one. Parson Carter wouldn’t breathe a word about the shotguns that had forced her son into Opal’s clutches.No one will. Adam’s honor won’t be smirched like that. Oh, people will talk. People always talk. They’ll guess there’s a child on the way. But the girl will be gone long before she proves them right. Long before she makes Adam known as a fornicator and binds him to her so tightly he’ll never escape! There was time yet, so Lucinda could wait. Hadn’t she proven she was good at waiting? Even as young as eleven, when she came to the Grogans, second cousin and poor relation of Diggory’s mother, hadn’t she laid plans with the expertise of a master mason? Look at me now. Diggory’s wife, just as I planned.
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