Village Squire, 1976-03, Page 21thinking about her Prince Charming coming
across the golden fields.
When Celia had this dream she thought of
herself as young and pretty and desirable as
she used to be not as she was. Just to make
the dream come true, every fall Celia planted
a dozen or so tulips and daffodils. She'd made
beds around the house and along the fence
rows. She'd just started along the second
fence row. She was thinking about tulips and
daffodils because the day was a very warm
day in April and Cliff had come in saying that
where the snow was melted away, the tulips
were already two inches high.
So Celia put her coat on and went out
herself to look. When Celia saw her sprouts of
tulips she started to think about the fields of
daffodils and her Prince Charming and the
music (Zhivago was her favourite film, she'd
seen it four times already, twice on TV). The
sun was very bright and warm, so warm that
she let her coat hang open. She was hot from
puttering about the fence rows and garden
raking the sticks and leaves that had blown
there since fall.
Celia heard a car coming up the drive but
she couldn't see it very well because the sun
was directly in her eyes and she'd left her
glasses in the house and she couldn't see who
was behind the wheel. This was possibly her
Prince Charming coming over. fields of gold
on a beautiful day.
Celia ran over to the car excitedly and said
hello before she realized it was Cliff's car and
Cliff was sitting behind the wheel. She would
have been ashamed if anybody had said she
couldn't recognize her own husband when he
drove in the yard.
Cliff ignored her as he drove past. In fact if
he'd driven any closer he would have knocked
her down.
Celia was angry. She couldn't remember
being so angry at Cliff. She was so angry and
ashamed that she forgot all about Prince
Charming. "What's the matter with you,
Cliff? Going to town without me? You know I
like to go to town with you. What's the matter
with you?" She scolded and chewed at him.
"Silly old woman. Can't stop eating," Cliff
muttered to himself but Celia heard him. She
scolded back to him. "You're the silly old
fool, silly old fool," loud enough for him to
hear it in the barn. This was one day when
he'd have to wash the cow himself. She left
him in the barn and went toward the house, a
woody, smelly sanctuary, she'd always felt
was hers. His sanctuary was the barn, where
he had to go when he wanted to get away
from her.
Going in the door she noticed where Cliff's
great clumsy foot must have missed the
concrete step and crushed a tulip in half. It
was one of her favourites, a red and yellow
striped one.
She clucked with impatience, "that Cliff".
She tried to lift it back in place but it broke
off. It would not bloom now. She was really
angry. If the tulips didn't bloom, then she
wouldn't be able to dream her dream. The
sun which was bright against the walls of her
house made her eyes hurt to look at the flower
bed. It was a pain to stay out in the sun.
"What bad luck. Such a warm day so early
in the year", complained Celia. "What will
happen is that all the tulips will be up halfway
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blizzard sure as shooting or a killing frost --
kill off everything, no tulips, no daffodils, no
blossoms, no field of gold, nothing". In
anger, she sent the surprised cats out with a
boost into the mud and snow. They yowled
back at her and picked their way through the
wet. "No gold, nothing". They gave her a
cantankerous, owly look.
"Nothing," she yelled at them and
slammed the door.
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