Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 21
“ The realization that this man had asked her to go riding with him three days ago in the very car drawn up there in the Park drive filled Reba with tingling pride. Why, this man's cigarette ashes she had held in the palm of her hand! This man's firm shoulder muscles she had felt beneath her arm! ”
Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 21
“ Come on up." "City is pretty dead," Reba heard a familiar voice responding, as she observed with fluttering heart a familiar figure letting himself out of the car. "My people all away. Thought I might find somebody alive out here," he explained, approaching Gerard Park and shaking hands with him. "How are you?" "It's Chad Booth," Gerard Park announced to the group on the dark veranda. "You know Doctor Booth, don't you, Katherine, and Constance?" ”
Olive Higgins Prouty, The Star in the Window — Chapter 21
“ Katherine had conducted Reba, upon their arrival, to two of the guest-rooms on the third floor, before she found one unoccupied. "Tell me if there's anything you want," she had said, as she had left Reba. "And put on the blue-gray dress. Dinner is somewhere around half-past-six or seven. I'll come up for you, and I'm going to have you sit beside the darlingest man alive." The "darlingest man alive" proved to be Alexander Park, a vague name to Reba, but one often seen in the papers—a banker or lawyer, one of the two, Reba believed—and Katherine's father. ”
