“Very much,” Danica replied, not sure why he would be wearing that odd expression. “The scenery is very beautiful.”
“Quite different from St. Louis, I would imagine,” Edmund put in.
“Yes, quite different,” she agreed. “But I find that change can be broadening to the mind. Don’t you?”
“I think all of us Wilcoxes feel that way,” Jeremiah said. The grim expression he’d worn the day before was quite gone now. In contrast, a small smile played around the corners of his mouth. “Or else we would have stayed back in New England.”
“Oh, is that where you’re from?” Might as well play the innocent.
“Yes, Connecticut.”
“Then this must have been a very big change for you. Why the move out west, may I ask?”
She held her breath, wondering if she might have gone too far with that question. Still, sh
