After dusk Stan snuck into the house.
“Thank God, you’re here!” Katrina threw her arms around him with such force they both stumbled.
“Calm down, sister, and tell me what happened. I saw the midwife visit with you,” Stan said, ignoring Richard’s presence.
“She brought good and bad news. Which one do you want to hear first?” Katrina dragged her brother into the kitchen. She and Richard had just finished working on the fields for the day and settled in to have dinner. Wordlessly, Richard put another setting for Stan on the table.
“The bad, please.” Richard liked his thinking. Getting it over with and ending on a positive note. In different circumstances they might have been friends.
“Agnieska refused to escape,” Katrina said, dishing out Bigos, a popular Polish stew made of finely chopp
