Ooh, I know! This is
Heaven\'s Prisoners by Demi. A really lovely, sad story with a happy ending.
Hmm... Something else to quote... How about this?
"Last night ... I thought it sounded like Perry was giving you the third degree and I was right! I couldn't understand it at the time because why would he be grilling the very guy he'd wanted me to meet in the first place?"
"You know, I did kind of wonder about some of the questions he asked me, but -- "
She interrupted him. "Boy, am I going to give Mr. Perry White a piece of my mind the next time I see him. He has no business interrogating my ..."
She became aware that Clark was silently laughing. "What's so funny?"
"Elvis almost married the wrong person, too, Lois."
She stared at him for a moment while memories of Perry trying to tell his story and Alice trying even harder to prevent him, skipped through her mind, and then she was laughing, too.
