The wreath over the front door blinked in time to Jingle Bells, the notes sounding through the room from its music box. Gina couldn't help but smile. ...he'd never really gotten over the wonder of Christmas that so many outgrew. It was a big reason why she was so angry at her husband, but also the reason she was having trouble holding onto that anger.She stood, hugging her arms around herself, and took in the scene until the wreath ended its first song, moving on to Silent Night. The lure of the. .Some of our relatives were coming to our home to spend time with us andgo around the places here. I had my exams coming next month. So I had achance to stay at home! I planned my programme for the day.Finally the day came. Early morning my parents, my sis and therelatives left in a van and were to be coming back only by the evening.My mother had cooked food for me. It was really a day I had beenwaiting for! I took a bath around 7:30; but before that this girl haddecided what to wear! I took. He took a small box from his pocket and went down on one knee, and once again asked her to marry him. Amidst giggles and clapping, Kathy accepted, and Kurt slipped the ring on her finger. Kathy showed it off as the girls gathered around her. It was a very nice stone in a nice setting and I was sure it had mostly wiped-out Kurt’s savings since he’d told me that he was borrowing money for his last year of school.“He gave you that last night, didn’t he?” Joyce asked.“Yes, but we wanted to surprise. The whole ceremony was uncompromisingly secular. Albert had never said anything about religion, but somehow we all knew he would have wanted God kept out of it.The company had laid on a few refreshments afterwards in one of its meeting-rooms (the least it could do, I thought, after all the money it had made). Cautiously, I took the opportunity to sound one or two of the scientists to see whether Albert might have taken any of them into his confidence about his greatest project. I could only.