It was hot, without a hint of a breeze. Mid-October and it felt like the dog days of August. The wedding guests wandered beneath the sweet gums and pecan trees that shaded Camilla Tilly s backyard, faces shin- ing with sweat, sipping cold drinks in which the ice melted too soon.
Joleen Tilly, Camilla s oldest daughter and sister to
the bride, stood at the cake table from which she d
just shooed away three frosting-licking children. Jo-
leen felt as if she was melting in her ankle-length rose-
colored satin and lace bridesmaid s gown.
And she couldn t help suspecting that the cake was
melting, too. The icing looked thinner, didn t it, in a
couple of places? The cake had five layers, each bor-
dered with icing swags and accented with buttercream
roses. Hadn t the top four layers slid sideways the ti-
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