Show 1 An Unplanned Christmas by Dorothy Boys The white drifts were already so deep that had to guess where the curb was as he parked the black Cadillac in front of the grey house with a for sign over the simply don't dare go a mile he said to the fur-clad woman beside it's only fifty miles more to Mil-bank what a place to spend Christmas She peered distastefully the still-falling snow out on the to stay than be stalled overnight somewhere and freeze to death in the Do you realize it's taken us one hour to come only fifteen miles since if we Mil-bank suppose we'd be too late for the Randall's cocktail party snow looks so white and clean Milbank remarked as they trudged up the the seems like it gets all grimy and slushy the minute it hits the Please don't go sentimental one his wife can just see this she muttered bathroom with A few minutes later as Johnson closed the door behind them Milbank the iron just aa I I wonder if it will even hold both of kind of reminds me of that bed we had when we were first Milbank Only we painted it white to match the second-hand Milbank stared at the Her voice had lost some of its planned to use the white furniture in the nursery when the first child her husband continued it never Milbank's voice was crisp Quickly she turned towards the bags standing near the you bring up but those gifts for the Randall Being Thankful the one thing we have to be thankful for in all this Milbank really won't matter whether they get those things for Christmas or Their playroom is undoubtedly crammed with toys Milbank cut in answer to a tap on the a woman of about their wearing a crisp blue cotton stepped into the wonder I don't know she said hesi you wouldn't like to come downstairs for some coffee and It does seem a shame to spend Christmas Eve alone in a strange mustn't Milbank Johnson Christmas isn't the time to welcome strangers to one's I don't know They had reached the living room Milbank sat down on the sofa and looked searchingly at really mean don't she said Need Cheering course I And I suppose I shouldn't say this but when you people came in tonight you looked so lonely and I just felt sorry for You seemed to need cheering up as much as the folks next have no children of your Milbank asked and her husband sensed the intensity of her Johnson Then she you can always scare up some substitutes if you look around I'm lucky to find some right next She glanced ruefully towards the only wish I had more to give Milbank looked quickly at who nodded me a I have some things to bring in from the he |