Chapter 5
Alexandra did not find time to go to her neighbor's the next
day, nor the next. It was a busy season on the farm, with the
corn-plowing going on, and even Emil was in the field with a team
and cultivator. Carl went about over the farms with Alexandra in
the morning, and in the afternoon and evening they found a great
deal to talk about. Emil, for all his track practice, did not stand
up under farmwork very well, and by night he was too tired to talk
or even to practise on his cornet.
On Wednesday morning Carl got up before it was light, and stole
downstairs and out of the kitchen door just as old Ivar was making
his morning ablutions at the pump. Carl nodded to him and hurried
up the draw, past the garden, and into the pasture where the
milking cows used to be kept.
