Free The Haunting of Josephine by Kathleen Whelpley

engagement party. You do not have to worry about planning your wedding because it is already all done. Everything contained in that bundle are the plans that I made from listening to both you and Mr. Kinsley. I hope that the two of you will find that it is the perfect melding together of what you would both want on your big day. I did my best to make sure that the balance of you and him was perfectly matched. ” As Katherine spoke Jo read the note that was on top of the bundle of papers that followed what her a unt was saying to her so closely she did not realize when Katherine ’s voice faded away. A light knock sounded at the door.
    “Who is it?” Jo got up and put on her robe as she headed toward the door. She heard Mr. Kinsley identify himself and then opened the door for him. “I did not know that you were going to be coming here this morning if I had known I would have been sure to be ready for your arrival.” Jo made a slight move to show that she felt her attire was not appropriate for receiving her fiancé in.
    “I know that I should have waited for you to send word to me today on if we were still going to be meeting in order to plan the wedding but I did not want to wait.” Mr. Kinsley stood near the door looking rather nervous and playing with his hands as if he had more he wished to say but was choosing to keep quiet until her heard her response to give an indicator as to how she was feeling .
    “We will not need to meet in order to plan the wedding.” Mr. Kinsley did not wait for her to finish before he was in an outrage.
    “I know that I told you that I would be patient with you but you just sounded as if you do not intend on us ever planning the wedding. Is that it? Is that what you have decided that you no longer wish to be joined with me? ” Jo did her best not to laugh as she realized how he had interpreted what she had said.
    “I was going to explain that we have no need to meet in order to plan the wedding for it is all already done. There is no need to plan something that has already been planned. ” Mr. Kinsley’s fac e went from an excited hope to completely confused.
    “What do you mean that it is already done? How could you have possible planned the entire thing yourself? You do n o t know much about the merchants around here. Not to mention that there has not been adequate enough time to plan such a large important event. Are you sure that we will not still need to discuss and plan some of it? ” Jo went over to her desk and grabbed the stack of papers and handed them over to Mr. Kinsley.
    “I found this in my wardrobe this morning. I guess that my aunt had planned everything out pretty much the moment that you asked me to marry you. According to her note she took everything that she heard from the both of us and those papers will contain the perfect melding together of what the both of us would want in a wedding.” Jo found herself starting to cr y at the thoughtfulness of her a unt.
    “I find it so hard to believe that she had already done all of this for us. What a wonderful gift.” Jo shook her head yes as Mr. Kinsley pulled her in for a comforting hug.
    “I am no longer scared of planning the wedding or going through with it. A part of me had been wondering if it would be alright or not and now it feels like it would be wrong to not go through with our wedding.” Mr. Kinsley tipped Jo’s chin up so that she was facing him and he could be sure that she got the full weight of his words .
    “Because I love you I am going to ignore that you thought there might be anything wrong with us marrying. But I want you to know that I am going to do my best to help you because I know that it is going to be hard on you on our wedding day be cause it meant so much to your a unt. But with these papers and plans I really feel like a part of her is still going to be there for us on our big day.” Jo pulled away from Mr. Kinsley enough so that she could look up at him.
    “There is just one