Do you have any idea how beautiful you are?" he asked.
Elizabeth had a vague idea, since everyone was always telling her, and she suppressed a worried impulse to reply, "Do you have any idea how I am?" It wasn't that she was an intellectual by any stretch of the imagination, but she like to read and even debate issues, and she wasn't at all certain he would like that in her. He never expressed an opinion on anything except the most trivial generalities and he never asked for hers.
"You're enchanting," he whispered, and Elizabeth wondered, very seriously, he thought that. He didn't know how much she loved to fish, or to laugh, or that she could shoot a pistol so well she was almost a marksman. He didn't know she'd once had chariot races across the yard at Havenhurst, or that flowers seemed to bloom especially well for her. She didn't even know if he'd like to hear all the wonderful tales of Havenhurst and its colorful former inhabitants. He knew so little of her; she knew even less about him.
Elizabeth had a vague idea, since everyone was always telling her, and she suppressed a worried impulse to reply, "Do you have any idea how I am?" It wasn't that she was an intellectual by any stretch of the imagination, but she like to read and even debate issues, and she wasn't at all certain he would like that in her. He never expressed an opinion on anything except the most trivial generalities and he never asked for hers.
"You're enchanting," he whispered, and Elizabeth wondered, very seriously, he thought that. He didn't know how much she loved to fish, or to laugh, or that she could shoot a pistol so well she was almost a marksman. He didn't know she'd once had chariot races across the yard at Havenhurst, or that flowers seemed to bloom especially well for her. She didn't even know if he'd like to hear all the wonderful tales of Havenhurst and its colorful former inhabitants. He knew so little of her; she knew even less about him.
( Judith McNaught )
[ Almost Heaven ]
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