Chapter 21

Hours later, after Rickey had gone to bed, Virginia went alone into the garden. The friendly box trees seemed to enfold her as she sat on the stone bench, where she had sat with Michael. How near he had seemed to her in mind and spirit! The change in him was incredible. Were men like that, she asked the moon, were they? The next morning she went over to see old Mrs. Montgomery, taking with her the box of sweets that Tony had brought. The old lady sat in a room furnished with her own ancient belongings. There were t…