Chapter 6“Billie! Billie!”, the words echoed throughout the old Briar family home, as Nana Hattie was trying to call out to her granddaughter.
“How is it possible that in the most critical of situations this girl manages to be so irresponsible?”, old Hattie pondered, and then somewhat placatingly answered her own question – after all, she was one of the two people who had raised that child. If it was anyone’s fault, it was hers, since she was the wisest among them. Grand things were coming, important things, where there would be no place for childlike behavior. Then again, Billie wasn’t a little girl anymore, albeit Nana Hattie didn’t really want to accept that. If she would only pretend and make believe that Billie was still a kid, this happy-go-lucky young lassie who watched cartoons an
