I'm trying to find the name of the short story by Ray Bradbury in which a family is seated each morning at breakfast. Mother, father, grandmother and granddaughter who I think was called Marieann or marie-anne (or similar).
Marie Ann is being dated by a boy who arrives each morning in a car which toots outside - at which sound she runs out. She is in a daze.
It is the grandmother who (eventually) quietly lets the family know that it's a different boy each morning!
The name of the story, and of the book that it's in, would be much appreciated, so that it may be given to a dizzy girl, rather like Ray's character in the story in some ways, but someone who really should spread her net a bit further (as Marie-Ann did).
The New Forest, Ringwood, England.

"The Great Fire," which appears in The Stories of Ray Bradbury among other collections.

Golden Apples of the Sun being the other main collection.

Thank you so much dandelion and philnic.

Now that you mention it dandelion, I remember the title "The Great Fire". The English girl from Ringwood (let's call her Chloe, because that's her name!!)is quite the reverse to Marie-Ann, and at her age it's much too soon to be like this (probably) - but she's free to decide.
She will, however, soon receive a copy of the book.

Many thank again.
John

Kewl, always great to see well-placed Bradbury hitting the mark.

Written over 60 years ago (1949) but , as you say, hitting the mark (and, I think, probably going to do some good!)