Quest for the King
“Finis! The wedding was actually taking place.It was very unfair. It should never have happened. Think of itmarried at the age of fifty-two for the first time to a lady who looked like somebody's grandmother. They said she was only fifty-only, if you please!Mary had needed, and still needed, Uncle John for herself. She lived with him, along with her three cousins, Wesley, Lisa and Kurt.
They had their own mother and father-and were with them now on a visit to Singapore-but Mary had no one. Mary ...had always felt she had an extra claim on Uncle John. She could have managed if she could only have hung on to him. But now this. Mary's thoughts were not the kind you were supposed to have in church, especially in an Anglican church. But then, people shouldn't many when they're positively ancient. Mary kicked the kneeling stool in front of her.She sat in the front pew of Saint Andrew's Church on Nathan Road in Kowloon. Mrs. Choi sat next to her, smiling at her from time to time. Mary did not smile back.MoreLess
They had their own mother and father-and were with them now on a visit to Singapore-but Mary had no one. Mary ...had always felt she had an extra claim on Uncle John. She could have managed if she could only have hung on to him. But now this. Mary's thoughts were not the kind you were supposed to have in church, especially in an Anglican church. But then, people shouldn't many when they're positively ancient. Mary kicked the kneeling stool in front of her.She sat in the front pew of Saint Andrew's Church on Nathan Road in Kowloon. Mrs. Choi sat next to her, smiling at her from time to time. Mary did not smile back.MoreLess
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