Wildest Dreams (The Contemporary Collection) - Plot & Excerpts
I have waited through the last days of the fall, through the grape harvest and the grain harvest, and the faded, dreary days when the earth itself seems worn-out and ready for rest. I cannot believe that my dear Allain will not return for me. I will not believe that he can stay away. This autumn, men have been dying in the Crimea at places that are mere names on a map as the allied sovereigns of England, France, Prussia, and Austria join battle at last to try to curb the ambitions of Czar Nicholas. I pity the poor soldiers of both sides, sent to die so far from home and family, but it is a surface sympathy only. I pity myself more. Yet, wishing to have faith in my love, I despise the weakness. Sometimes Violet grew angry with Allain. What was he thinking of, to go away and leave her here alone among strangers? Had he no idea of the fears and fancies that beset a woman in her condition? He had said he would never leave her. Yet he had. He had. She told herself every day that he must return soon, that he did not intend to stay away forever.
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