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Show 20 appear unconcerned in my life, but how I trembled when his wife replied, "I don't know but when Chariton comes up you can ask him." In a short time Chariton came. My heart almost stopped beating lest they should put the dreaded question but they evidently had forgotten it.^ As the party passed near the home of Grandmother Hawley in Battle Creek, Ellis was afforded a chance to stop overnight with her. "They were all very much surprised to see me," she said, "and they were so kind to me and did much in recruiting my wardrobe, which was very incomplete and unsuitable to the place I would shortly be in." When the party finally reached Brigham Young's home in the city, Ellis dreaded her introduction to the family, fearing she would be looked upon as an inferior, and her heart beat almost audibly as she was taken around to meet them. President Young introduced her to a "middle-aged lady with a kind and noble countenance," saying, "Lucy, this is her home and I want you to be a mother to her." That evening as the combined family met in an "elegantly furnished and brilliantly lighted parlor" of the Lion House for prayers, Ellis felt that all eyes were upon her as the family speculated as to "what motive Brother Young had" in taking her to his home. The room was literally filled with people. The President was sitting near a table on the west side of the room. At his right hand sat Sisters Eliza R. Snow and Zina. The latter, as soon as our eyes met, smiled and bowed and then came over and shook my hands, kindly welcoming me, a movement not unnoticed by the President who, after she had returned to her seat, interrogated her quite closely. How strange and confused I felt, for I knew he was no longer in doubt as to whom Zeb had been engaged. When prayers were over, we went back. I retreated to the most obscure corner of the room, hoping, should the |