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"Can I come with you?" Elizabeth asked before John could leave again.
"I don't have a suitable chaperone," his mouth said. His eyes said, I don't want you with me.
She did not understand why.
To be sure, Jim would come over and keep her company, claiming she helped during the long absences to fill the hole his brother had left.
"Tell me a story. An adventure." Elizabeth sat back to listen, hoping for something as exciting as the stories John brought back.
Jim smiled. "There once was an Indian princess..."
Neither stopped to watch her mother's mouth go flat.