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Show in my father's house/ 55 she creased a collar. "Did you fall in love all at once?" She nodded, smiling. "When I heard Dr. Allred was to speak at our cottage meeting, I expected a short, stooped greybeard -- anything but this tall, blond, handsome young man who spoke so eloquently about the Gospel! Helga and I talked about him all the way home, but neither of us dreamed we might marry him someday. Even though he bore his testimony of the Principle that night, it just never occurred to us that he might take other wives. He had married Gerda only the night before. And then, we were so young, only sixteen...." She paused, staring into space and half-smiling. "Gerda says she knew from the minute we met we would be his next wives." "And were you?" "Yes...well, after Rachel, who was married two days later. You see, my father was sick with tuberculosis and couldn't work, so he spent most of this time studying scripture. One book that convinced him that the Principle is true was A Leaf in Review by your other grandfather. Soon my parents and your daddy became good friends, and he came to our house for Christmas dinner. That was when he asked my parents if he could marry one of his girls." "Which one?" The iron smoked and my mother snatched it up, leaving a small brown boat on the white cover. Her face flushed and she glanced at the clock. "Goodness! The bread should have come |
