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Show Moon - 208 Esther was silent, pressed Anne's arm to her side and started them walking. "Please," Anne said. They walked silently out of the train station. Esther hailed a cab. Anne could feel her disapproval like a curtain of lead. She wanted for it not to be this way. She groped for her sister's hand. "Listen. I didn't plan it to be like this. I love you. I came to see you. Now you see that is another little joke. But if that's all I did, come out here to say I love you, I want it to be enough." Silence again. Then, "Mother will be disappointed." "Mother will get over it." "I just got a job in Washington, D.C.; we'll be moving there soon," Esther said. Anne knew from this that her sister was processing, adjusting. "We'll be able to see you there, and much more often." "Yes. Good. Now take me to the airport and simply tell them I'm blind but am otherwise fine, and then call James, please, and give him the flight information so he can meet me." Esther laughed, seemed to relax beside her. "You've become a tough old bird." Esther took her to the airport, rode with Anne to the gate on the cart and made jokes about old men being driven to drink in golf carts, but her voice trembled and sounded strangely choked. |