A Little Learning
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Rory squeezed his arm. “It’s okay, Dad,” she said, and then she gazed ahead toward Seamus.
His green eyes crinkled in a smile as he watched her approach.
“Does he know?” she said.
“By the end of the course, he’d guessed. He insisted on paying their way. After you agreed to marry him, I couldn’t refuse. It would have been rude.”
“Mm.”
Kurt took his daughter’s hand and placed it in Seamus’s.
Seamus said, “Thank you.”
He and Rory gazed at each other, and a wind rustled paper in the minister’s hands, lifting one of the sheets into the wind. He grabbed at it and then had to turn and chase it into the meadow.
“What did you thank him for?” Rory whispered.
“Because of what he told me. That you’re the most valuable thing in his life. And he gave you into my keeping.”
“Who is giving you into mine?” she asked.
He looked toward the front row, where Belle was crouched down in her dress and white tights, petting Seuss, Lauren was rolling her eyes at something Beau had said and Caleb was folding his program into a paper airline.
Rory and Seamus laughed at the same time.
As the minister made his way back to them with his notes, she said, “Then, I’ll have to thank them, too.”
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ISBN: 9781460304365
Copyright © 2013 by Margot Early
Originally published as GOOD WITH CHILDREN
Copyright © 2007 by Margot Early
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