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Love Comes Softly, chapters 17-18<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This chapter is called \u201cMysterious Absence.\u201d Oke begins by telling us that November brought with it storms, but that Clark was constantly busy despite these, gathering logs from the \u201cwooded backcountry\u201d for fuel and spending time in the barn easing the animals \u201cthrough the inclement weather with as little discomfort as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marty\u2019s own chore list is still somewhat limited:<\/p>\n

Marty called her days caring for Missie, keeping up the house, baking bread, washing, mending, ironing\u2014the list seemed endless to her, yet she was thankful to have each of the long days occupied, particularly ones that held her indoors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I\u2019m glad Oke remembered that these seemingly simple tasks do take time. I\u2019m still curious, of course, whether Clark is doing the churning.<\/p>\n

The point, though, is that time is passing. Marty spends her free time in the evenings sewing clothes for the baby, whom she sincerely hopes will be a boy (Why? Because she wants \u201ca son for Clem,\u201d of course). She has decided to name him Claridge Luke, the first being Clem\u2019s last name and the second being her father\u2019s name.<\/p>\n

How proud her pa would be to know he had a grandson bearing his name.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Interesting. Marty has a father.<\/p>\n

But that would have to wait for the first wagon train going east, when she\u2019d pack up her son\u2014maybe even Missie\u2014and head back home.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Did they not have mail back then? Oh surely, I get that they wouldn\u2019t have a mailbox at their house, but surely they could mail a letter from town? (You know, the town Marty has never been to despite Clark going every week.) I get that they didn\u2019t have trains yet, but didn\u2019t they have stagecoaches? Or telegrams? Or something?<\/p>\n

The thought of taking Missie along with her was of more and more concern. What was best\u2014both for the little girl and for Clark? She saw the great love Clark and for his daughter, and she wondered when the time came if he\u2019d really be able to let her go. Or if he should.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My god, why did no one think of this earlier?!<\/p>\n

Marty herself was getting awfully attached to the child. Saying \u2018Mama\u2019 came easy now to both of them. Indeed, sneaking up quite unawares was the feeling she was just that, Missie\u2019s mama.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Maybe Marty should\u2014gasp<\/em>\u2014talk to Clark about this. You know, communication. I hear it\u2019s a thing some people do.<\/p>\n

Anyway, this chapter is actually really hum drum and boring. The only thing we learn is that Clark has been going into town more often, and often returning with very few packages. In fact, sometimes he just rides a single horse into town, rather than taking the wagon. This is somewhat confusing to Marty. Even more confusing, though, is that one morning at breakfast he announces that he\u2019s going to be gone for three or four days.<\/p>\n

There appeared to be a break in the weather, he explained, so he had decided now was the time to make a trip to a town much larger than their small local one.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oooo, I bet they<\/em> have a post office! Too bad Clark didn\u2019t tell Marty about this trip until literally the minute he was leaving<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Anyway, Clark tells Marty that he\u2019s arranged for \u201cyoung Tom Graham\u201d to come and do the evening chores and stay over night, and do the morning chores. He\u2019ll go back home to the Grahams\u2019 place during the day.<\/p>\n

Marty gets real curious about why Clark is going to this larger town, but she resists the urge to ask him.<\/p>\n

He was probably looking for new machinery to till the land, or better seed\u2026 Anyway, it was his doings, so why should she worry about it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Marty really doesn\u2019t have any interest at all in learning how this farm is run. Is Oke aware that sometimes men died, and sometimes their wives took over their business and ran it themselves, at least until they could find some other solution? Seriously, asking Clark what he\u2019s getting in the bigger town\u2014does it not have a name?\u2014would\u00a0not be nosy.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

As Clark leaves, Marty notices he\u2019s taking some hogs with him. Since he\u2019d told her once that if they needed more cash, they\u2019d sell a hog, she\u2019s suddenly worried that she\u2019s cost Clark too much money. Girl<\/em>. You were just wondering whether he was buying some new farm machinery, do you not know that\u00a0new farm machinery costs\u00a0<\/em>money.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Seriously, Marty would save herself\u00a0so much trouble\u00a0<\/em>if she would just communicate with Clark and actually take interest in things around the homestead.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo use takin\u2019 on so,\u201d she murmured to herself. \u201cGuess I\u2019m jest a mite off my feed or somethin\u2019 to be stewin\u2019 \u2019bout it so. Wish I could have me a good visit with Ma. That\u2019d set things right.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Is she housebound? There are three horses. Clark took two. Surely she and Missie could ride the other one. If she\u2019s not sure of the way, all she has to do is ride there with young Tom Graham the next day, after he finishes Clark\u2019s choring.<\/p>\n

The way Clark is always up and about while Marty is permanently stuck in the house is reminding me of the Filipina mail-order-bride that lived in my apartment complex as me some years back. Her husband was always going every which way while she was effectively housebound, unless he took her out somewhere. Also like Marty, she figured her husband\u2019s business was his business, and not something she needed to know about.<\/p>\n

I mean, seriously?<\/p>\n

So the days go by and nothing really happens and young Tom Graham turns out to be quite good company and great with Missie. The big thing Oke wants you to learn here is that Marty realizes that she misses Clark and is looking forward to him returning, and thinks that\u2019s kind of weird. She justifies it by telling herself that it must be because she said that last goodbye to Clem without knowing it was the last time she\u2019d ever see him, and there\u2019s a similar feel here.<\/p>\n

In a different book, young Tom Graham would be 19, the same age as Marty, and he and Marty would hit it off. Maybe Clark would come home and see them engaged in friendly conversation and get jealous, and suddenly realize that maybe he should actually, you know, start talking<\/em> to Marty. But no, whether for good or ill, Clark has no competition.<\/p>\n

(In case anyone is curious, I\u2019m pretty sure we were told that Sally Anne and Laura were Ma Graham\u2019s oldest children, at 17, so Tom can\u2019t be more than 15 or 16.)<\/p>\n

Clark returns with only a few small packages, and Marty thinks he looks a bit dejected. Marty is glad that Clark is back and that things can now get back to normal. Normal,<\/em> she realizes. Not the life she had wanted, but a life that had at least become familiar, and \u201cthere was a certain amount of comfort in the familiar.\u201d<\/p>\n

Time hop! This chapter was short enough that I\u2019m moving on to the next one, and it\u2019s now two weeks before Christmas. Clark offers to keep Christmas super simple this year for Marty\u2019s sake\u2014which is odd, because this\u2019ll be his first Christmas without Ellen, too\u2014but she says that wouldn\u2019t be fair to Missie, and besides, that \u201cChristmas, seems to me, be a right good time to lay aside hurtin\u2019 an\u2019 look for somethin\u2019 healin\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clark is impressed and says he \u201cnever heard a better sermon from any visitin\u2019 preacher than the one I jest heard.\u201d Clark asks what she has in mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cWell\u2026\u201d Marty turned it over in her mind, trying to recall exactly what had happened at her home to prepare for Christmas. There hadn\u2019t been the reading of the Scripture story, but they could add that easy enough. And there had been a good supply of corn liquor, which they could do without. Otherwise, there must be several things she could do the way her mother had. This would be her first Christmas away from home\u2014the first Christmas for her to make for others, rather than have others make for her.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I guess we\u2019ve learned one<\/em> new thing about Marty\u2019s family: they weren\u2019t teetotalers.<\/p>\n

Marty suggest Christmas baking and a tree. She says she\u2019ll have to get recipes from Ma. (Yes, she calls her \u201cMa.\u201d They all do.) And popcorn chains and colored paper chains and candles in the windows, and rooster for Christmas dinner, and she says she\u2019ll make something for Missie as a present, and by now Marty seems more excited than she has in a long while.<\/p>\n

Clark says there\u2019s no need for roosters\u2014he\u2019ll buy a turkey from the Vickers! \u201cMrs. Vickers raises some first-rate \u2018uns,\u201d he explains. After that, he\u00a0goes on:<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll ride over to Ma\u2019s today an\u2019 git the recipes\u2014or better still, it looks like a decent day. Ya be wantin\u2019 me to hitch ole Dan an\u2019 Charlie so ya can be goin\u2019 yerself?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, could I?\u201d Marty\u2019s tone held the plea in her heart. \u201cI\u2019d love to see Ma fer a chat\u2014iffen yer sure it be all right.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You see! You see what I mean! What is this, house arrest?<\/p>\n

So it was decided that Marty would go to the Grahams\u2019. But Clark added another dimension to the plan. If it was okay with her, he\u2019d drive her to Ma\u2019s, and then he and Missie would go on to the Vickers\u2019s and get the turkey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Seriously??<\/p>\n

The day spent with Ma was a real treat. They pored over Ma\u2019s recipes, Marty selecting so many that she\u2019d never get them all baked. \u2026 She also wrote down careful instructions on how to stuff and roast the turkey, it being her first attempt at such an endeavor.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Marty gets a wild idea. As she and Clark and Missie ride back to their farm\u2014the turkey gobbling in the back\u2014she suggests that they have the Grahams come over for Christmas dinner. Now, I\u2019ve been married for ten years, and I still haven\u2019t had my family to my place for the holidays. Why would I do that? There\u2019s so many of them, and so few of us. And my mom knows exactly how to cook the turkey, and there are lots more helping hands there.<\/p>\n

It would make a whole lot more sense for Ma to invite Marty, Clark, and Missie over for Christmas dinner. But no. For some unfathomable reason, she wants to have all thirteen Grahams over for Christmas dinner, to the very small house she lives in with Clark and Missie. My house is bigger than theirs, by a lot, and it still<\/em> feels stuffed when my whole family comes for a visit\u2014an ordinary visit, not the holidays, with its fancy prep work.<\/p>\n

This is a terrible idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cI know there be thirteen of \u2019em an\u2019 three of us; thet makes sixteen. the kitchen table, stretched out like, will hold eight. Thet\u2019s the four grown-ups an\u2019 the four youngest of the Grahams. Missie\u2019ll be in her chair. That leaves seven Graham young\u2019uns. We\u2019ll fix \u2019em a place in the sittin\u2019 room an\u2019 Laura an\u2019 Sally Anne can look after \u2019em.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a terrible idea.<\/p>\n

\u201cSeems to me it be a pretty big order, gettin\u2019 on a Christmas dinner fer sixteen, an\u2019 servin\u2019 it in our small quarters, an\u2019 ya bein\u2019 the way ya are an\u2019 all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marty knew she must fight for it if her idea was to be.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This<\/em> is what Marty wants to fight for? This?<\/em>\u00a0Lord almighty!<\/p>\n

Marty explains that she\u2019ll have all the food prepped ahead of time, and that Ma and the girls will help her with the dishes and such. She pleads and wheedles and explains.<\/p>\n

Finally, Marty tricks Clark into getting involved in the planning and then declares it settled before he even assented. It goes without saying that this is not good communication. In fact, Marty actually feels \u201ca bit guilty\u201d about the trick, but \u201cnot enough to be bothered by it.\u201d And so it really is<\/em> settled. They\u2019re having the Grahams over for Christmas dinner.<\/p>\n

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