Middle Age: A Romance (Part 2)

"Owen, when did you build this? My God."

"Last winter. It came to me in a dream. Or, rather - you came to me in a dream. You suggested it." Owen smiled almost shyly. "You held out an orchid to me, and promised you'd return 'when the orchids bloom.' It was a dream that made me so happy, darling, though when I was awake I hadn't much to be happy about."