Elizabeth Malone

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Elizabeth Malone is the oldest of the Malone children, but appears the least--she begins the series already married to Lieutenant Donald McCallin. She starts a family, and moves from Colorado to California during the course of the series. =====

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"Before Elizabeth married she had gone a year to the university. She had been strenuously rushed by every sorority and pledged by the "prominent" Delts. She had been chosen freshman escort for the Homecoming queen. And, before the year was out, she had been married under crossed swords to Lieutenant Donald McCallin. But now the war was over. Soldiers were returning. But Elizabeth was still waiting for Don to return from overseas. "Elizabeth was lovable and loving and so lovely! Oh, why couldn't I, Beany often thought, have hair that makes a shining aureole about my face (as they say in books)? Why couldn't boys send me violets and say they were pale compared to my eyes?" Dear Elizabeth. Gentle and loving yet strong. More loyal to her husband than seems possible. As her beloved Don returns from the war, Elizabeth sat devotedly at his bedside as the doctors determined the status of his wounded leg. ".. .Everyone else had been so shocked, so grieved at the thought of his leg being amputated at the knee. But not Elizabeth. Beany would never forget her luminous face as she reported, 'He'll live. The doctors got the infection in time. He'll live, and that's all that matters.' "