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The girl shook her head "Well, I did Once But that was before…"

"Before?"

"I’m a me?"

"Or dancing We…we try to serve, you see"

"Serve who?"

She was shocked "Why--God, of course!"

"How are you serving hi and serving--" The girl shifted in her seat

"Serving who?"

Gabby looked down at her folded hands

"Are your parents here, in the city?" Angela asked

"I don’t see them anymore," she said

"Why not? They aze on her hands once again "They don’t know about the baby"

"Most grandparents would love news of a baby Did--did they throw you out of the house, or…or what?"

"No, no--I belong to the church," she blurted

"And the church doesn’t want you to see your parents? Oh, Gabby! That doesn’t sound very good"

Gabby looked at Angela and there were suddenly huge tears in her eyes "I believed…I believed that they were right I believed in…serving"

"Serving how?" Angela couldn’t quite prevent the sharpness that came into the question "Every church, temple and so on that I’ve ever heard about preaches love--love between parents and children as well as God!"

Suddenly, the tears began to drip down Gabby’s cheeks "I thought…I don’t know, it all seeive…ere all supposed to love one another, but it doesn’t feel right Tonight, I had to see…I had to see what he was doing"

"He? The baby’s father? Is he the head of the church?"

Gabby shook her head "I--I’m sorry I can’t tell you"

"It’s o home To your parents Do they know that you’re still in the city?"

"They tried to get ainst the law for thenant and learning that the promised land was not so ideal, and that she had human emotions and needs that went beyond promises of rede the strings

The soup came Gabby wiped her cheeks and started to sip it She was starving, or so it seeood portion of food before talking to her again

"Gabby, are you married to the child’s father?"

"Oh, yes! Well, not in the eyes of the corrupt law--but in the eyes of the church"

"Hmm Does the baby’s father have other wives?"

Gabby’s eyes widened

"He does And you’ve realized that when you love soht, you’ve also realized that the ht you loved is someone different entirely?"

"He has to--he has to keep the job he has It’s--it’s just part of his--job," Gabby said

"That’s a crock!" Angela said flatly It was confusing His job was part of his job? He worked for the senator--and for the church But his work for one or the other was felonious If the senator had asked hiet involved with the church, the man had certainly taken the task to heart! But…