“I wondered where you'd got to. Sit down and have something to eat.
_Had_ your supper? Where?”
“We've food with us in the sack.”
“Well, there was no need to do that. Won't you have a cup of tea, then?
Nothing?... I've had an answer from my husband. Can you fell trees?
Well, that's all right. Look, here it is: 'Want couple of men felling
timber, Petter will show trees marked.'....”
Heaven--she stood there beside me, pointing to the message. And the
scent of a young girl in her breath....