A Sheaf of Corn

Dinah Brome stops at a cottage window just in time to see a sick woman’s cakes spill onto the dirty floor—and the woman crawl after them. “If that don’t make me sick!” Dinah says, then turns back.

In the village of Dulditch, where harvest work fills the fields and neighbors can still leave one another to suffer, Dinah is known for her spotless home and tireless industry. She has sworn never to set foot in Car’line Kittle’s cottage again; now Car’line is too ill to climb the stairs, and even baking her husband’s harvest cake has become too much. Dinah brings her to bed, scrubs the neglected room, and waits for Depper to come home—with a few words ready for him. What will Dinah demand of the man who left Car’line to struggle alone?

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