And such happiness she'd never known. One day when I sat at the kitchen table paging through a mail-order catalog, I saw that they had flannel nightshirts for men and flannel gowns for women. I would never do it, only think about it, not as long as she lived and Pops lived and Jasmine lived and Big Ramona lived and Lol But Stirling was no Evil Doer.
The entire supper arrangement was illuminated by soft floodlights attached to the side of the house and also by a ring of candles in hurricane lamps. They'll do anything in this world for Aunt Queen. I have to try not to hate her. But to return to my story, if it hadn't been for the fabled Ora Lee and Jerome, little William and Camille might have drowned in the swamp or starved from inattention.
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