“My pleasure, wife. Are you still angry with me?” he asked.
She’d forgotten her anger, but remembering the humiliation she was tempted to resurrect it—carefully of course.
“Anger, perhaps not. But to be punished along with those two, as though I had a part in their war, I found it unfair.”
“Did you now.” Samuel said, moving his arms around his wife’s waist and bringing her close to him.
“Yes,” she answered sheepishly.
“I meant what I said. You’d do this family a world of good if you stood on your rock and spoke up more forcefully when things start to go awry. Both Johanna and Lottie need a woman’s guidance, and you can provide that.”
“That places so much responsibility on me.”
“And you can handle it, my dear one. Besides, you do have me to back you. I won’t let you down, even if I d
