The Secret Keeper
“Those who were not baptized headed to the screened-in back porch behind the kitchen. A few teen girls in identical blue dresses to Jenny’s looked shyly at her in passing before wandering down the steps and over to the barn in a cluster. The boys, matching in black trousers and coats with white shirts buttoned to the neck, sauntered in the opposite direction, toward the woodshed.
Jenny pulled on the black shawl Rebecca had loaned her for the day and waited on the porch with a handful of smal...l children who sat along the wall on a padded bench. Several eyed her while talking softly among themselves in Deitsch. In time, two of the older little girls popped up and began a quiet clapping game, spinning around in between claps, their organdy aprons fluttering about. Jenny wished she could speak their language—she longed to interact, feeling again like the outsider she was. But she continued to watch the well-behaved, even demure youngsters from her corner.
Sighing, Jenny wished again that she’d grown up here.MoreLess
Jenny pulled on the black shawl Rebecca had loaned her for the day and waited on the porch with a handful of smal...l children who sat along the wall on a padded bench. Several eyed her while talking softly among themselves in Deitsch. In time, two of the older little girls popped up and began a quiet clapping game, spinning around in between claps, their organdy aprons fluttering about. Jenny wished she could speak their language—she longed to interact, feeling again like the outsider she was. But she continued to watch the well-behaved, even demure youngsters from her corner.
Sighing, Jenny wished again that she’d grown up here.MoreLess
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