TY - BOOK AU - Price,Eugenia TI - The waiting time AV - PS3566.P945.W358 1997 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Doubleday KW - Leisure Reading KW - Fiction N1 - 2 N2 - A pre-Civil War romance whose heroine is Abigail, a Boston blueblood. She marries a Southern rice planter and when he dies Abigail inherits a property with a hundred slaves. Abigail is against slavery, as is the overseer, Thad, which brings them together ER -