When Love's Sorrow Plays Again novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: When Love's Sorrow Plays Again
The winter concert sold out in nine hours.
By seven that Saturday the lobby of Nicollet Hall smelled of wet wool and pine, and snow was coming down past the doors in thick slow flakes.
Backstage, I stood in my black dress with my grandmother's violin under my chin, tuning to an A that wouldn't hold still.
My hands were cold.
Agatha found me in the corridor and fixed my hair.
She did it with a pencil and a dozen bobby pins and a look of ferocious love.
"You're going to be fine," she said.
"I'm going to throw up."
"Do it in the plant. Not the dress."
"Where's Ellery?"
"Front row, dead center, with her sticker." She took my face in both hands. "Between the upstairs neighbor and the board chair. She told the board chair to hold her coat."
I laughed, and it helped.
Agatha kissed my forehead and went to take her chair with the winds.
The first half was Brahms.
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