Divide the Joy (Serenade/Saga, No 28)

How was he to know that the secret she guarded so carefully would one day be his fate as well? What a little wren of a woman she was-- huddled in that great cloak in the broiling hot sun! Was she daft? Or dimwitted? Or simply snobbish? Why didn't she help with the preparations for the long journey? Surely her sister-in- law had need of extra hands-- what with the packin', and the movie', and the children. Well, he'd find out Mercy Wheeler's secret on this trek to Indiana--or his name wasn't Ben Tasker!