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- Author: Catherine Coles
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WESTLEHAM, BERKSHIRE – FEBRUARY, 1948
I didn’t expect to receive a card, not really.
Even so, I had hoped I might. I watched from behind the net curtain in
my parlour as the postman ambled down my garden path, took a single red
envelope from his postbag, and fed it into my letter box, knowing the entire
time that the card was not for me.
It would be for Ruby, my sister, and would be from her beau, Police
Detective Inspector Ben Robertson. They had met the previous summer,
and what had begun as a mild flirtation had quickly blossomed into
something much more serious.
I was happy to note that each seemed as besotted as the other. It was my
deepest wish that someday soon Ben would take the next step and ask for
my sister’s hand in marriage. Although, I supposed there was no reason for
them to hurry the next stage of their relationship. Far too many people had
done that and married in haste before the war and lived to regret it.
I knew that all too well because I was one of them.
That’s not to say my husband, Stan, was a cruel man. He was not. We
just hadn’t really been in love with each other – not like Ruby and Ben
were.
Stan had returned safely from the war, and I had presumed we would
continue our quiet country life and hopefully one day be blessed with
children. Of course, for that to happen, it meant that Stan would’ve needed
to pay more than the odd visit to my bedroom. My parents had never been
particularly demonstrative – either to each other, or to their children.
However, I knew enough about married life to know that having separate
bedrooms immediately after the wedding was not a positive sign for a
successful marriage.
Stan had always been cordial to me. He was not the sort of man who
came home on a Friday evening after a busy week at work and then spent
every spare hour in the village pub. Neither was he violent or stingy with
his money. I had just always known that he never truly loved me. We lived
like very good friends with the occasional marital liaison.
He never once
made my blood whoosh through my body or my heart hammer as hard as
the hooves of Farmer Bennington’s horse as they clattered along the village
road. Unfortunately, I had discovered the man who had the power to create
those feelings in me much too late. The local village vicar could recite the
driest, dullest passage of the Old Testament, but it would still sound like the
most beautiful of poetry to me.
The vows I had taken when marrying Stan were until death us do part
and so the affection I had for Westleham’s vicar, Luke Walker, had never
crossed the line of what was proper. Although it had to be said that since
our visit to the village of Winteringham the previous summer,
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