Catherine Carmier Page 19
“Yes, ma’am.”
“Out there tonight, my husband and Marky was fighting. Whose side I was supposed to take? No side … not after living like this all this time. No, tonight it had to be settled. Tonight it was settled.” She looked at him and nodded her head thoughtfully. “Now, I must go in and look after my husband,” she said with pride. “Will you excuse me, please.”
She went as far as to the door, then she stopped to look at him again.
“You wait for her, you hear? If it takes twenty years, you wait.”
He watched her go into the house. He stood there, hoping that Catherine would come back outside. But she never did.
