“Chilly or not, I’m very much looking forward to it. We’d better get to it, Becky, so Jessie can get her work done and have some time to relax.”
The scowl overlying the worry was evidence enough that Becky was unhappy with the dismissal, but she obeyed and strolled into the dining room where they found the guests lingering at the table though they were all finished with their meal. Becky quickly introduced the five guests—George and Rhonda Crank, a newly empty-nested couple she’d once met in Wyoming at a wrestling tournament, young honeymooners Parker and Haley Morrison, and widow Gail Hickam Fines, whose beautiful Shetland sheepdog Quinn would be enjoying yet more spoiling in the warmth of the ranch house with the Robinsons while her master was out in the cold and snow.
“Gail’s kids sur
