Chapter 11: ChalkyAnna placed the newly filled straw mattress on Lorenz's bed while MacDonald and Lorenz worked on the door jamb. From somewhere she had retrieved a wooden box and set it beside the bed. Inside it were placed the extra socks and summer underwear purchased at Uncle's store. On the top of the unpainted box, she had set a candle nestled inside an opened, cleaned, cut-off, and wallpaper decorated tin can. She surveyed the room critically after making the bed. “Ve vill buy du a proper chest vhen the money is a little better. Perhaps we can find a mirror at Kap's place. They may have an old one stuffed away somewhere.”
Lorenz knew that Rity's bedroom had some kind of fancy chest and a dressing table with a chair. He wondered if Mama had one of those and then decided she probably
