Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906

Book Excerpt: ...your Chinese cook--but I've only time now to say goodbye. You wish me a lovely time at the dance and a full programme, don't you?Yours sincerely, Sidney Richmond. Aunt Jane came home presently and carried away her sleeping baby. Sidney said her prayers, went to bed, and slept soundly and serenely. She mailed her letter the next day, and a month later an answer came. Sidney read it as soon as she left the post office, and walked the rest of the way home as in a nightmare, staring straight ahead of her with wide-open, unseeing brown eyes. John Lincoln's letter was short, but the pertinent paragraph of it burned itself into Sidney's brain. He wrote: I am going east for a visit. It is six years since I was home, and it seems like three times six. I shall go by the C. P. R., which passes through Plainfield, and I mean to stop off for a day. You will let me call and see you, won't you? I shall have to take your permission for granted, as I shall be gone before a letter from you ca..