Chapter 6: Anna's Last StandAnna's sour mood worsened as the morning progressed. All her instincts, kenning ways as Mr. MacDonald called her premonitions, kept screaming that Antoinette and the babies should have stayed home. Toni, as they called Antoinette, had ignored her three months' pregnancy and brought their two boys and Mina with her in the buckboard to the Rolfe ranch. They were there to help Anna and Brigetta with the wash and to visit. Mina was put to work watching Lorenz's sons and Martin's two boys.
“It does become so boring with no one to talk with, Mother MacDonald.” Antoinette did not count Armeda as someone to talk “with.” Armeda was hired help. “The men should be back this afternoon.”
Zeb and Lorenz were with Herman and Martin Rolfe and the hands branding cattle. Anna h
