Secrets in Summer(117)

So many people, Darcy thought. They had seventy guests, so many clever, bright, funny, adorable people. She allowed herself a brief moment to miss those not here—her parents, the Chicago relatives, and Susan Brueckner and Mimi. Yet deep in her soul she knew they were part of it all. The love she was given as a baby and child still sustained her as a grown, married woman. The lessons she’d learned from last summer’s summer neighbors were with her still, twining like climbing roses around her heart. She might never see Susan, Willow, and Mimi again, but they had changed her life, and in that way they remained with her always. She smiled when she thought of them.

How fortunate she was.

Tonight she and her husband would leave for their honeymoon in London. In two weeks they would return to their jobs on Nantucket.

That summer Nash would begin building a swing set in their backyard, complete with a swing for the baby.