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.“Embarrass you.You blatantly disregard Eli’s feelings, my feelings.You couldn’t even muster the courage to admit to our friend that Eli and I are involved.Did you even for once think about how you made Eli feel?” Rebecca’s whisper sounded gritty and her arms pushed Deseire away, creating a clear space between them.“Everything is about you, always you.” Deseire kept her whisper balanced between quietness and firmness, a whisper she had had much practice with in high society.“You are a part of this family and what you do reflects on us.It isn’t just your life which is affected by your actions.” Deseire gripped her daughter’s wrist again, moving in close to her, close enough to hide the grip.“I won’t have it! I won’t let you prance around with that…boy of yours.You are breaking it off.”Rebecca tore her arm away from her mother and stomped out of the hall with her mother following closely behind.Ralph and Eli stood together, waiting for them to return.Rebecca abruptly kissed her father on the cheek, whispering goodbye.With her mother’s intense glare, she grabbed Eli’s hand in rebellious frustration.Eli saw Rebecca’s haste to depart and waved, saying, “It was nice to see you both again.” Rebecca whisked Eli away from her parents and towards his blue car.Wednesday, April 20, 1932Normally Rebecca had classes to ready for in the early morning, but after graduation, she found herself sleeping in since her diner shift began in the afternoon.Today, though, she set her alarm for the first sign of the sun and woke up feeling nervous, knowing Eli and his family had a big day planned.She had never been to a Seder or Pesach, Passover and she threw her clothes one item at a time over her bed, weeding through everything to find the right first impression.Eli had told her it was a feast his mama prepared for every year weeks in advance, and his entire direct family would most certainly attend.Other family members would be there, too, which added to the anxiety.Rebecca asked for this day off of work after Eli told her the date, the twentieth of April.Eli warned her they had already begun some of the rituals on the nineteenth, two days before the official Passover on the twenty first, but she would only be dining for the Seder.Eli, knowing the Hebrew celebrations were new to her, and after much deliberating with his father, decided that would be best.Eli did not go into the discussed details, but his enthusiasm about her arriving to dine with them made Rebecca elated as well.She pulled a lengthy blue flowery dress up to her and fixed a stare into the bathroom mirror.The minuscule mirror, not large enough to capture her full figure, forced her to look at her shape in pieces, the upper neck line and shoulders and then, standing on her tub, the dress covering her legs and ankles.Dissatisfied with the blue color, she tossed it over the rising pile on her bed.Eli told her to wear something conservative and Rebecca knew exactly what he meant.Years of practice, living with her socially conscious, conventional mother taught her that.Rebecca had not even learned of a flapper dress until well into her twenties.While other young ladies freed themselves from the constraints of the older generation in the twenties with dazzling, sexy dresses celebrating cleavage and makeup that used to be considered a sure sign of prostitution, Rebecca’s parents coddled her with cultural courtesies and propriety.She had mixed feelings about that; on the one hand, she considered it a luxury to have been brought up with money, servants, cooks, and a large home and, on the other hand, she missed out on many of the reckless teenage experiences of her less fortunate friends in Munich and University.Rebecca knew reds and yellows were too loud and short dresses were not conservative enough.She wanted to be a part of Eli’s life and this meant dressing the part for his family.A flustered emotion arose as she chose between two dresses still in her closet [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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