Prayer for sale page 218

What if you slipped on the

ice and broke your leg? You

could freeze to death before 

somebody found you. Mae 

was right Hennie admitted 

to herself. If she fell snow

would cover her up, and nobody 

would know where she was until

she melted out in the spring. It was

to stay another winter on the Swan

River. Besides it was selfish of her to

let Mae worry. But Lordy she didn't want

to live on the Mississippi. Hennie set the letter

on the table and returned to the window

to look at the woman covered now in

white flakes. She'd be frozen solid 

as fence post if she didn't move soon.