Chapter Four
Marilla: The House Manager
Marilla’s journey to this very unique quarantine began when she was a volleyball playing lanky 18-year-old. Qualifying for the Danish national women’s team meant she had to move from her parents’ home in Aalborg on the far north of the Jutland peninsula to the national capitol of Copenhagen. That was an exciting prospect for an adventurous teenager, especially since the atmosphere in her parents’ home was rather restrictive for an energetic young blonde beauty. The trio had been at loggerheads for years over Marilla’s stubborn rejection of her parents’ evangelical Christianity when she turned thirteen. Up to that age she had been a somewhat grudging participant in the family religion, especially regarding the scriptural prescription not to spoil th
