Even when she was awkward with child, he continued to insist on her company. When she was expecting their first baby, he had gently bullied her into walking with him as he made the rounds of his parish. She smiled to herself-grateful she had reached the point where she could smile about it-and thought of her husband, the dedicated walker. I am not the prodigious walker I once was, she thought as she made no move to rise from her comfortable perch. She took off her shoes and stockings and stretched her toes in the dewy grass. Winter was coming, and with it, decisions enough to push a seaside visit into the background again. Perhaps next summer would be soon enough. Through the dismal spring and uncertain summer, Helen had wanted to visit the ocean at Scarborough. She closed her eyes, thinking of the sand dunes, and how wonderful it would be to walk barefoot there. Somewhere behind the fragrance was the sharp odor of the sea. She sniffed the breeze, enjoying the scent of wild roses still blooming into September. Helen and Felicity would still be asleep, curled up next to each other, and Meggie Watson would be lying awake and thinking about putting on water for tea. She snapped open the watch that was pinned to the front of her dress. She rubbed her heel and contemplated the gentle river of grass that flowed around well-spaced boulders and emptied into a larger meadow. "This is the folly of wearing new shoes," she said out loud as she sat on a log at the edge of the woods.
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