Page 15 (2/2)

Elsa picked out The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Sense and Sensibility, Jane Eyre, and Wuthering Heights She left The Age of Innocence, which in a way had started all of this

She put the four novels in her suitcase and clasped it shut

“No Bible, I see Coo”

Elsa followed her arden and approached Papa, who stood by the roadster

“It can’t coene,” Mama said “She’ll have to marry him”

Elsa stopped “Marry hiine her terrible fate, this had not even occurred to her “You can’t be serious He’s only eighteen”

Maust

Papa opened the passenger door and waited iet into the car As soon as she was seated, he slammed her door, took his place in the driver’s seat, and started the engine

“Just take me to the train station”

Papa turned on his headlights “You afraid your Eye-talian won’t want you? Too late, missy You won’t simply disappear Oh, no You will face the consequences of your sin”

A fewto see but the yellow beahtened Elsa’s fear until she felt she ht simply break apart

Loneso little town tucked up toward the Oklahoh it at twenty miles per hour

Two hts shone on adirt drivehich was lined on both sides by cottonwood trees and fenced with barbed wire attached to whatever wood the Martinellis had been able to find in this mostly treeless land

The car pulled into a well-tended yard and stopped in front of a ashed farmhouse with a covered front porch and dormer s that looked out to the road

Papa honked his horn Loudly One Two Three times