Crossword-Solution: VERANDAH 8 letters, 15 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 15

A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I.We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beautyand the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show themwhat it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I.The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugaras we laugh together, you and I.In one form upon this earth, and …

One morning, as he sat at his desk, he heard the sound of a horse's hooves on the path outside his house. He stepped out on to the verandah. There, on a tall grey horse, sat Morgane. 'I've come to have my picture painted,' she said. She took off her hat and her long black hair cascaded below her shoulders. 'You said you would,' she added, before dismounting. She wore a pair of moleskin jodhpurs and a white shirt, open at the neck. Her skin was radiant from the African sun.

It felt strange to call them directly, to hear her father’s “Hello?” after the second ring, and when he heard her voice, he raised his, almost shouting, as he always did with international calls. Her mother liked to take the phone out to the verandah, to make sure the neighbors overheard: “Ifem, how is the weather in America?