“Lost causes are my specialty,” Anna insisted, as her fingers and knitting needles seemed to meld together in a blur of fuzzy pink yarn. “Ben and Emma belong together, and if anybody can make it happen, we can. We’ve never missed yet.”
“It would take a miracle to get Emma to set foot on Huckleberry Hill ever again.”
“Leave that to me. I have a few tricks up my sleeve.”
Felty frowned as if he’d already lost this debate. “But Ben lives in Florida. What young man in his right mind would trade Florida for Wisconsin?”
“Ben would, if he knew his dawdi needed him. If he knew the farm would fall to pieces without his help.”
“Ben’s got twenty cousins living in Bonduel who could help with the garden and the animals. He’d wonder why we couldn’t use one of the other grandchildren.”
Anna’s ball of yarn tumbled off her lap. “Don’t you worry. I’ll see to it that all of the other grandchildren are excessively busy on their own farms.”
“And how will you see to that?”
“Now Felty. They all want Ben to come home. If I tell them my plan, the cousins will be perfectly happy to neglect their grandparents. Ben has such a tender heart. He’ll come back when he knows we need him desperately, especially when you’re going to be feeling so poorly.”
Felty leaned back in his recliner and raised his arms in surrender. “I’m feeling worse already.”
“That’s the spirit!”
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