His reunion with the Svent clan was filled with thanksgiving, rejoicing and amazement. The Family was sworn to secrecy and the gift was hidden cleverl...y, and used as a reminder that good manners were always important.What a curious dream, I thought, perhaps old Bull had been right believing in other sight, but when I tried to use the other sight as Dag had, I could only sense things vaguely. Perhaps it took a rawer frontier, and less iron, people, and smells.I hadn’t payed much attention to what. ”Peter tightened his arm around her, leaned over to kiss her on the forehead, and continued, “Right. As we are. And then I was trying to figure out how it happened. You know: if I hadn’t seen you going through pockets in the coat room at the dance that night...”Jane jumped in. “If you hadn’t chased me into the bathroom and made me do all those nasty things...”“If you hadn’t agreed to do them,” Peter topped her—adding, with a smile in his voice, “...you little slut.”“Hey!” Jane sat up and. The girls said it sounded like fun.Both girls wanted to go to the bathroom to "freshen up" leaving Jim and I at the table waiting. While we waited I stacked the deck giving Jim and Connie winning hands and Marilee and me losing hands. The way the amount of time for play was determined by drawing a card. Number cards indicated that play would last the number of minutes equal to the number on the card. Jacks, Queens and Kings were all 15 minutes and Aces were 20 minutes.The girls came back. For most of the way, there was a smooth path, a bit wider than the cart. They moved out at a good pace, where the path was fairly level, but when we came to a hill, the three of them had to lean into their work to pull up uphill. I marveled at their well developed thigh muscles as they strained to pull us. The slope was so steep that we were tilted back in our seats, and I wondered if my skirt preserved my modesty. A Christian woman does not wear garments which "divide the legs", and I.