Elinore looked at him, her bright green eyes agleam in the lowering sun. “You received a telegram.” “What’d it say?” “I didn’t read it. I didn’t know if you’d want me to, so I brought it out here for you.” One of the seventeen reasons Elinore made such a good wife was that she did not snoop. Another was her Oklahoma accent that sounded like honey to Oswell even after fourteen years of marriage.
