dapple-ducky

Updated: May 17, 2025

"You go to bed, Dapple-ducky," he said, calling her by the name he had given her in childhood. "It's all right, dear. Don't you be a silly. I'll go along at once and fetch him." His stern resolve was shaken. If Jack Marston had come then he would have relented; I think the marriage would have taken place. But he did not come. He never came.

Mary E. Mann - A Sheaf of Corn