Eliza Troyer sniffed, drawing herself to her full height. “I should well think you would be sorry,” she said, her voice clipped. “I made a promise to your mamm.” Her face crumpled for a quick moment and then hardened in exasperation. “I haven’t done my duty to you or to my sister.”
“It isn’t your fault. You can’t take the blame.”
“You’re under my roof, ain’t so? You’re in my care.”
“I’m also nineteen years old and hardly a child.” Doris took a step closer to her aunt. “You’ve been wonderful gut to me, and I’m right grateful.”
“What is it, then?” Eliza asked. “What is it about that boy that won’t allow you to give him up? He’s in prison, Doris. Prison.” She visibly shuddered. “Imagine an Amish boy in prison. It doesn’t bear thinking about.”
“He’s getting out soon. And don’t we all make mistakes? Isn’t forgiveness what we’re all about?”
Eliza gripped Doris’s arm. “Maybe so. But that don’t mean you have to be writing to him. That don’t mean you have to be sweet on him.”
“We can’t choose who we’re sweet on, can we?” Doris tried her best to inject a playful note into her voice, hoping to cajole a smile out of her aunt. It wasn’t to be.
“This ain’t no laughing matter, child.” Eliza ran her hands down her ample bosom and then twisted her fingers in a nervous gesture. “What am I going to say to Henrietta?”
“You don’t have to say a thing,” Doris said, working to curb her anger. She wasn’t a little girl who had to be tattled on to her mother.
“I promised I’d care for you—”
“Which you have.”
“I promised I’d get that Lehman boy out of your mind.”
Doris sighed. “It isn’t that easy.”
“Clearly, it ain’t,” Eliza said with a moan. She squared her shoulders. “There will be no more letter-writing to him, do you hear me? None at all. I won’t have you writing lovesick letters under my roof.”
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