DAISY (GARDEN BELLES MAIL-ORDER BRIDES #1) BY NANCY FRASER – eBook Details Online
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The Traveler Returns
Plans Change
July 1875
Daisy
Daisy stepped down from the train and onto the platform. The earlier
steamer crossing from England had taken nine days… nine long and boring
days. Yet, that wasn’t nearly as bad as the train ride from New York to Saint
Louis. She was tired, and all she wanted to do was sink into a hot bubble
bath and let the last two weeks of constant travel slip away.
As much as she wanted to see Tulip before her best friend left for
California, Daisy realized her visit would have to wait until morning.
Shaking her head, she still couldn’t believe Tulip was moving all the way
across the country to become a mail-order bride. Obviously, even after all
these years, the Williams sisters were still as busy as ever.
‘They need doctors out west,’ Tulip had said in her last letter. ‘My
intended is a veterinarian, so a doctor of sorts himself. We’ll have a
wonderful life, and I’ll be able to practice what I’ve been trained to do.’
Daisy was still fuzzy on the details of why Tulip felt she had to move
away from Saint Louis, but she’d get everything straightened out tomorrow.
In the meantime, she had two years of unpacking to attend to, right after she
got her bath, some of her mother’s home cooking and, perhaps, a nap.
Daisy balled up her fist and banged soundly on the Williams’ front
door, a little leery of the condition of the aged brass door knocker. The
flower-shaped adornment had definitely seen better days.
“Daisy-doodle,” Dahlia greeted the moment she opened the heavy
door. “It’s so good to see you.” Grasping tightly to Daisy’s wrist, Dahlia
pulled her forward and toward the kitchen. “We’re just having mid-morning
tea and want to hear all about your adventures in merry old England over
the past two years.”
Suppressing the urge to laugh, Daisy obediently followed along behind
the exuberant woman. “I’ve so much to tell, one cup of tea may not be
enough.”
“Not to worry,” Dahlia insisted. “We’ve two pots steeping on the stove
top.”
In the fifteen years she’d known the family, Daisy had come to realize
there were always two pots steeping, along with the usual plates of fluffy
biscuits and homemade jam.
“Daisy!” Zinnia shouted the minute they entered the warm and
welcoming kitchen. “Get over here and give me a proper hug.”
Daisy wrapped her arms around the woman and hugged her tightly.
“Hello, Miss Zinnia. It’s so good to be home. Is Tulip here yet?”
“Not yet,” Dahlia said. “She’s making her morning rounds at the
women’s hospital. You’ll have to put up with just us old ladies for another
half hour or so.”
“Are you kidding?” Daisy teased. “I can’t think of a better way to
spend my morning.”
They were on the second pot of Zinnia’s favorite herbed tea when the
sound of footsteps in the hallway caused Daisy to spin around in her chair.
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