They met in the hallway a few minutes later. Ella was dressed in a drab old shirt and a long skirt that she’d borrowed from the laundry. Her long honey-colored hair was fanned out across her shoulders. Reno was wearing one of her brother’s old school outfits and had her hair tied up under a dirty drover’s cap. They looked at each other with laughter and mischief in their eyes.
“No one’s going to recognize us. We look like a couple of peasants who have been working in the fields.”
Reno agreed. “If anyone stops us, just keep your head down and let me do the talking.”
“Of course. You look like a boy in that outfit.”
“I figured we wouldn’t get noticed as much if we looked like a young couple. We’d be watched as two women without an escort.”
“Good idea, Reno. Let’s go down to the river. I
