Chapter 24: Martin Takes a WifeBrigetta turned away from the window with a sick feeling in her stomach. Her pink cheeks had grown pinker, and her heart was heading upward to lodge somewhere in her throat. The man she'd seen had not looked particularly young. His hat was a strange, wide brimmed affair, his stride still loose and easy, but he was wearing animal skins and spewing a brown liquid at Mrs. Hoefmann's roses. Had she risked everything for this man?
She was twenty-two years old, a spinster by the standards of the day, and a recent immigrant from Germany. She stood barely five-feet tall, with a fully mature figure, pale blue eyes, and thick blonde hair braided and wrapped around her head. Her features were considered average, and her eyelashes were so blonde and skimpy it looked as
