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anyone to keep you in town,” Meg
    added with her usual lack of tact.
    “But I’m not-”
    “We won’t be going for another month,” Charles chimed in. “Not till sometime in November, when the rainy season is well past.
    I’d consider it a personal favor if you’d come, Cathy. I wouldn’t feel right about abandoning Meg if you weren’t there.”
    “Not that he should feel right about abandoning me at all,” Meg laughed, sharing a tender glance with her obviously doting husband. “But
    you know what men are like. I doubt we’ll even see them the whole time we’re down there.”
    Cathy could feel Sin’s speculative hazel eyes on her averted face. “I still don’t think—”
    “I think she’s afraid we’ll all have to crowd on the boat,” Sin’s slow, deep voice broke through. “Maybe you’d
    feel better about it when you realize we’ll be staying at Pirate’s Cove on St. Alphonse. This boat is definitely too small for four people,
    particularly when two of them scarcely know each other.”
    Meg added the most telling argument. “I mentioned the idea to Father and he thought it was terrific, Cath. Please say you’ll come. I’ll
    have a miserable time if I’m left to my own devices.”
    Cathy hesitated, torn by indecision. She knew perfectly well that to agree would be succumbing to Meg’s blatant matchmaking and tantamount to
    throwing herself at what now appeared to be a supremely disinterested Sinclair MacDonald. But for that matter, she too was supremely disinterested. So what
    could be the harm in it? If neither of them had any interest in the other, then there was no reason why they couldn’t have a very pleasant time. And
    the warm trade winds and aqua water ought to do wonders toward her recovery, she thought, still savoring that word.
    “She’ll go,” Sin announced suddenly, nearly catapulting her into disagreement once more. Shooting him a glance of irritation that had
    absolutely no effect, she nodded.
    “I think I’d like that a lot,” she agreed.
    “Terrific!” Meg cried, enveloping her sister in an enthusiastic bear hug. “We’re going to have a ball.”
    “This all depends on whether Father is feeling all right,” Cathy warned, immediately having second thoughts.
    “Pops is as strong as a horse, and you know it as well as I do,” she shot back. “That tiny heart seizure has been the best thing in the
    world for him, forcing him to slow down. The pace he was keeping was killing him.”
    “I hope the boredom isn’t finishing the job,” Cathy replied. “Though I think he might actually be enjoying his curtailed
    activities.”
    “I have little doubt that he is. You know how he loves having his grandchildren around,” said Meg, a faint blush rising to her cheeks. Cathy
    noticed the rise in color, and opened her mouth to query her sister, then shut it again. Perhaps Meg was still suffering from the memory of her miscarriage
    just six months after her marriage. This was certainly not the moment for Cathy to bring it up.
    “Well, that’s settled,” Charles announced, his smooth, tanned face looking quite pleased. “Why don’t we all go out to dinner
    to celebrate? You’ve been dying to go to that new Chinese restaurant down by the water, darling, and now’s our chance.”
    “No, thank you,” Cathy said hastily. “I really have to be back. I—uh—promised Rosemary I’d be there. She wanted some
    help on a sweater she was knitting, and—and she was going to come over.”
    Meg eyed her in surprise. “Since when have you learned to knit?” she asked sharply.
    “Since this summer. You promised me I’d be back by late afternoon,” she added, rather desperately, and then felt awash with guilt at the
    disappointment on both her sister’s and Charles’s faces.
    “Well, that’s simple enough, then,” Sin spoke up. “I have to get back to town myself. I’ll take Cathy back, and the two of
    you can go out for your dinner. I think an old married couple