近期热门的优选书刊《飘》，轻松有趣温柔的治愈你(40)

“It"s a pleasure to see you，”said Frank warmly.“I didn"t know you were in town. I saw Miss Pittypat only last week and she didn"t tell me you were coming.Did—er—ahem—did anyone else come up from Tara with you？”
He was thinking of Suellen, the silly old fool.
“No，”she said, wrapping the warm lap robe about her and trying to pull it up around her neck.“I came alone. I didn"t give Aunt Pitty any warning.”
He chirruped to the horse and it plodded off, picking its way carefully down the slick road.
“All the folks at Tara well？”
“Oh, yes, so-so.”
She must think of something to talk about, yet it was so hard to talk. Her mind was leaden with defeat and all she wanted was to lie back in this warm blanket and say to herself：“I won"t think of Tara now.I"ll think of it later, when it won"t hurt so much.”If she could just get him started talking on some subject which would hold him all the way home, so she would have nothing to do but murmur“How nice”and“You certainly are smart”at intervals.