Anne walked up to the ticket window a few weeks later and said, "Mr. Carlyle has left me a ticket."
The ticket man pulls out not just one ticket, but two.
"Oh, there is only supposed to be one ticket. You must have made a mistake," she says with a slight confusion in her voice.
"There's meant to be two," Carlyle says softly. "I wasn't sure you would come if I asked again."
Anne gives Carlyle a smile, and he intertwined her hand with his.They walked up the stairs together, almost all the way there.
"Phillip? Is that you?" his mother asks.
"Mother, Father this is Anne Wheeler," Carlyle says, grasping her hand a little tighter, but not enough to hurt her.
"Phillip, why are you with her? She is a black woman that has nothing. And you are a rich white man that has everything anyone could ever want. I'm confused," his father says, while looking at Anne with hatred.
Anne, who was looking down the whole time, took one glance at his parents and looked down again. She ran down the stairs, with Carlyle calling for her to come back.
"Anne! Anne, come back," he says.
Anne didn't turn around, not even to look at Carlyle. Carlyle's eyes got misty and he looked at his parents with such a hatred that he has never felt before.
"What makes you think you can talk to her like that? What gives you the right to do that?" Carlyle asks, letting a tear slide down his cheek. And then he went after her, his one and only.
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One and Only
Roman d'amourA great love story, set in the 1800s. The love is between Anne Wheeler and Phillip Carlyle. A forbidden love, in fact, since this is the late 1800s and Anne is dark and Carlyle is white. Not the point. One of the greatest love stories that still ma...
