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of the back of the buggy.
    “After you put those bags in the house, can you go get the rest of those pipes and haul them upstairs?”
    “Sure, Daed .” David eased his way up the porch steps ahead of his father, then into the den.
    “Samuel, is that you?”
    “It’s both of us, Lil ian. Daed is coming in behind me.” David held the door as his father wound through the threshold with the plastic piping stil draped over his shoulder.
    “Where’s the toilet?” Lil ian met Samuel at the doorway.
    His father put the piping down, then stroked his dark beard and grinned. “Toilet? I must have forgotten that.”
    Lil ian slapped her hands on her hips. “You better not have returned to this house without a toilet, Samuel Stoltzfus!”
    Samuel pul ed her into a hug and nuzzled her neck. “Or what?”
    “No more meals until me and the girls have a toilet in this house! Do you hear me, Samuel?” She eased him away, but Daed grabbed her face in his hands and kissed her.
    David shook his head. “Stop it. Not in front of your sohn .” He couldn’t help but grin. His father and Lil ian were as happy and affectionate with each other as the day they’d gotten married. David regretted that he’d never have that, someone to love for a lifetime.
    “Where are Anna and Elizabeth?” David set the bags on the floor with a thud, hoping to break up the smooching going on. “H-E-L-L-O?” He knocked on the wal beside him.
    “ Ach . Sorry, David.” Lil ian grinned at David briefly, then turned back to Samuel and pushed him away. She put her hands back on her hips. “Where’s my toilet?”
    “In the back of the buggy, mei lieb .” Samuel scooted past her. “Where are my girls?”
    Lil ian relaxed her arms at her side and smiled. “The nicest woman came by earlier. Her name is Vera Detweiler, and...”
    “ Ach! The groceries.” David moved toward the door. “I got everything on your list, and that woman you mentioned, I met her too. She sent some bread and stuff for you.”
    “She told me. She said she decided to come by and see if she could help me with anything. She brought her little girl, Betsy.” Lil ian laughed. “When she got here, Anna and Elizabeth were running around the boxes like wild animals. We talked for a while, and then she offered to take them to her house to play with Betsy so I could get some unpacking done.”
    David turned around before he walked out the door. “Her daughter Betsy is nothing like Anna and Elizabeth.”
    Lil ian moved closer to the door, her forehead wrinkled. “What do you mean? Vera seemed very nice, and Betsy is seven, like Anna.”
    “Seven going on seventeen.” David grunted. “She’s some sort of whiz kid. A bit of a smarty pants.”
    Lil ian cocked her head to one side. “I didn’t notice that about Betsy, but then she didn’t real y say too much.” She looked toward the basement door.
    “Although she was rather obsessed about seeing our basement. I final y showed her, even though her behavior seemed to embarrass her mother.”
    David shook his head as Lil ian pushed a box out of the way with her foot.
    “Wel , Anna needs friends. I don’t think Elizabeth wil have any trouble making friends when she gets into school next year, but Anna doesn’t warm up to people as quickly as Elizabeth. It wil be good for her to have a new friend here, to help her get adjusted in her new school. Can you go pick up the girls around three at the Detweilers’ house?”
    David took a deep breath. I’ve been traveling half the day . “ Ya , I reckon so.” He turned to walk outside, and as he started down the steps, he heard Lil ian yel , “ Danki! ” Back at the buggy, he draped four plastic bags over his wrist and carried Vera’s goodies in the other arm. Is this what he’d always be, their running boy, with no family of his own? No. As soon as he could get a job and save some money, he was heading back to Lancaster County. He would purchase a place of his own, and at least