"Why’d they come back," Harriet asked.
"Looking for something," Anders said, "or maybe her family couldn’t make a living. That’s mostly why people get up and go. That and war."
"People like them are always looking for something and can’t make a living wherever they go." Stella said.
"What’s a living?" Lionel asked.
"Something you’ll never know," Stella said.
Tension developed. Stella said the Juniper sons looked like "they were up to no good." Three big men and Harriet on her budding stage. Every visit caused so much difficulty that Harriet and Lionel began to lie about their visits, but Stella sniffed it out. "Bad enough you’re visiting them, but lying about it! What are they up to with you? I swear I’ll take a gun and shoot them."
They stopped going. Harriet and Lionel recited the
