Chapter 10: Troubles
When Jerusha arrived home, she ran straight to her room, threw herself on her bed, and tried to quiet her emotions.
Why did I tell him he could talk to Daed?
The events of the day flooded in on her—the attack in the woods, Reuben appearing out of nowhere to save her, the beating he gave those men, her acquiescence to his request to speak to her father. It had all happened so fast, she barely had time to think. But now, alone in her room, she couldn’t help her mind from replaying it again and again.
How did Reuben happen to be there at just the right time? Was he following me? He beat those men terribly. It should have made me sick, but it didn’t. Oh, Reuben, what am I supposed to do with you?
Suddenly Jerusha’s life had become very complicated. Her simple childhoo
