"Zenna Henderson - Holding Wonder" - читать интересную книгу автора (Henderson Zenna)

"It-where is it?" I wondered if some dimension I didn't know was involved.

"Oh," said Mrs. Kroginold. "It has the unlight over Jake! Ask Ron-"

Mr. Kroginold turned his face to the huge nothing. And there it was! A
slender silver something, its nose arcing down from a rocket position to rest
on the tawny sands of the playground.

"The unlight's so no one will see us," said Mrs. Kroginold, "and we flow it so
it won't bother radar and things like that:" She laughed. "We're not the right
shape for this year's flying saucers, anyway. I'm glad we're not. Who wants to
look like a frosted cupcake on a purple lighted plate? That's what's so In
now."

"Is it really a spaceship?" I asked, struck by how clean the lovely gleaming
craft was that had come so silently to dent our playground.

"Sure it is!" cried Vincent. "The Old Man had it and they took him to the moon
in it to bury him and Bethie too and Remy went with their Dad and Mom and-"

"A little reticence, Son," said Mr. Kroginold, catching Vincent's hand. "It
isn't necessary to go into all that histo- "She-she realizes," said Mrs.
Kroginold. "It's not as if she were a stranger."

"We shouldn't be gone too long," said Mr. Kroginold. I'll pick you up here as
soon-"

"Pick us up! I'm going with you!" cried Mrs. Kroginold. "Jake Kroginold! If
you think you're going to do me out of something as wild and wonderful as
this-"

"Let her go with us, Dad," begged Vincent.

"With us?" Mr. Kroginold raked his fingers back through his hair. "You, too?"

"Of course!" Vincent's eyes were wide with astonishment. "It's my man!"

"Well, adonday veeah in cards and spades!" said Mr. Kroginold. He grinned over
at me. "Family!" he said.

I studiously didn't meet his eyes. I felt a deep wave of color move up my face
as I kept my mouth clamped shut. I wouldn't say anything! I couldn't ask! I
had no right to expect-

" And Teacher, too!" cried Vincent, "Teacher, too!"

Mr. Kroginold considered me for a long moment. My wanting must have been a
flaring thing because he finally shrugged an eyebrow and echoed, "And Teacher,
too."