All summers were long for Alice, for she was rarely afforded an escape from the farm. "Perhaps if it would make your Mother more comfortable your visit could coincide with our annual trip to my Gram's. She could hardly complain about you staying with a professor." Alice suggested, convinced in that moment that Mrs. Thompsett would never allow her daughter to visit the filthy farm.

With Sisse's ideas they made quick work of repacking her trunk. "Thank you for the help. It would've been awful to have lost all those vials."