Chapter 8

It was when Marty went up with Michael to settle for his purchases that Rickey saw her. He was standing in the doorway, and so looked down on her, and as he looked everything else fell away, there was only that glimmering figure. Mary Lee Logan was forgotten, everything was forgotten, except that he seemed to float in endless space illumined by a silver light. Marty was accustomed to admiration, but as she caught the boy’s glance, she was aware of something more than admiration, a sort of breathless wonder that, qu…