A Virtuous Woman (Oprah's Book Club) - Plot & Excerpts
Sometimes things happen and they pile up on you so fast you don’t know if you’ll ever settle back down, catch up again. All yesterday, all day yesterday all I did was think, and then I waited for Jack, waited for him twice to come home and spell me from all my thoughts. Then when he came in and we rested and ate it seemed like the whole long day started over. I had to wind back up again. I stay tired enough now as it is. Somebody knocked on the front door about eight. Nobody ever comes to the front besides encyclopedia salesmen, Jehovah’s Witnesses, or lay witness missionaries from down at Ephesus Free Will Baptist, and I thought to myself, Which one is it tonight and how can we get rid of him? And we couldn’t pretend to be gone, not with all the lights on and Jack’s game show blaring. He got up and peeked out of the front window and I had my fingers crossed for the salesman or the Jehovah’s Witnesses because they pretty much have to believe Jack when he says we just bought a whole set or just joined the church down the road, but the lay witness people know my husband has never warmed a pew at Ephesus Free Will, and neither have I.
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