Sybbie led Charlie down the road toward the house. Soon, she saw a familiar face approaching.
"Mrs. Bates!" she called out.
"Sybbie! No one said you'd be visiting!"
She was looking Charlie up and down.
"I'm coming to introduce my…" she hesitated.
"Fiance, we can call each other that now," Charlie said.
"Congratulations!"
"This is Charlie Bryant," Sybbie said. "Charlie, this is Mrs. Bates."
"Pleasure," Charlie smiled.
"Bryant, you said?" the woman asked.
"Perhaps you knew his father?" Sybbie asked. "He was here during the last war."
"Where is he now?"
"He died when I was a baby."
"I see…"