“‘I had hoped that you and Robin would one day get married,’she said,‘He was my only child,and I would have loved to be a Granny,they would have been such lovely babies’—she was like that!”
“Two years later she was dead too. ‘Pneumonia,following a chill on the chest’ was what the doctor said,but I think it was an old fashioned broken heart.A child would have helped both of us.”
There was a further pause.Mary Smith gently touched the wounded tree,just as she would have done to him. “And now they want to take our tree away from me.” Another quiet sob,then she turned to me.“I was young and pretty then,I could have had anybody,I wasn't
always the old woman you see here now.I had everything I wanted in life,a lovely man,health and a future to look forward to.”
She paused again and looked around. The breeze gently moved through the leaves with a sighing sound.
“And now I have nothing—except the memories this tree holds.If only I could get my hands on that awful man who writes in the paper about the value of the road they are going to build where we are standing now,I would tell him.Has he never loved,has he never lived,does he not know anything about memories?We were not the only ones,you know,I still meet some who came here as Robin and I did. Yes,I would tell him! ”
I turned away,sick at heart.But I knew everything was going on as planned.What I could say was sorry!
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