And now came this! How David would love it. She looked at
her husband, happily pottering around the engine, turning bolts and
buttons as men will do, and she looked at Julia, proudly viewing her
own physical beauties in the shining body of the car, and she looked at
Connie with the charm and glory of the parsonage life clinging about
her like a halo. Then she turned and walked into the house without a
word. Understandingly, David and Connie allowed her to pass inside
without comment.
"Connie," said David when they were alone, "I believe God will give you
a whole chest of stars for your crown for the sweetness that brought
you out here. Carol was sick for something of home. I wanted her to
go back for a visit but she would not leave me. But she was sick. She
needed some outside life. I can give her nothing, I take my life from
her. And she needed fresh inspiration, and you have brought it."
David was silent a moment. "Connie, whenever things do get shadowy for
us, the clouds are pulled back so we may see the sun shining on the
slopes more brilliantly than ever."
Turning quickly she followed his gaze, and a softness came into her
eyes as she looked. Truly the darkness of the canyons seemed only to
emphasize the brightness of the ridges above them.
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