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and she flirted with Benjamin
all the more. She could see that Benjamin was uncomfortable with
her behavior, but she didn’t care. She figured she was not hurting
Benjamin’s feelings at all, and if she could use him to make Nash
jealous, then she would.
    When Nash stormed off and slammed the door of
the B&B, Jessie’s spirits rose. Perhaps he is jealous after
all , she thought with satisfaction. She abruptly left the
puzzled Benjamin and walked over to speak to Sarah.
    * * *
    Sarah watched Jessie approach her with some
apprehension. She knew Jessie well enough to know that she wasn’t
going to make small talk.
    When Jessie reached Sarah, she came straight
to the point. “I have a confession.”
    “You do?” Sarah was concerned; she did not
trust Jessie after the things she’d heard about her, and wondered
if this was perhaps part of some game Jessie was playing.
    Jessie nodded. “ Jah . But if I tell
you, you can’t tell anyone.” When Sarah looked at her blankly, she
continued, “Agreed?”
    “Oh, jah . I mean, nee . I won’t
tell anyone.” Sarah was somewhat intrigued.
    “I’ve told Gott that I won’t hurt
anyone’s feelings any more,” Jessie said, without any trace of
embarrassment. “So I have to tell you this. Nash asked me to flirt
with Benjamin.”
    “He did?” Sarah’s voice rose to a high pitch,
so Jessie took her by the arm and guided her down to a row of
trees.
    “ Shush . Yes he did, but this puts me
in a difficult position as I don’t want to betray Nash either.”
Jessie sighed dramatically. “That’s why you can’t tell anyone.”
    “But why?” Sarah was more puzzled than
ever.
    Jessie shrugged. “He’s bored, I guess. He
could see you and Benjamin like each other so he wanted to cause
trouble.”
    “But we don’t, err , he doesn’t…” Sarah
began, but her curiosity overcame her. “Why would Nash want to
cause trouble?”
    “How should I know? I’m not a therapist.”
Jessie’s tone grew less tolerant. “Look, I didn’t want to tell you,
but I don’t want to hurt your feelings. You can’t tell anyone,
okay?”
    “Sure.”
    “All right then, you and Benjamin can go live
happily ever after.” Jessie looked Sarah up and down, and then
walked away, leaving a bewildered Sarah behind.
    Could this all be true? It certainly would
explain Jessie’s recent behavior, and it was something Nash was
likely to do, from what Rebecca had told her of the goings on at
the B&B when she had worked there prior to her marriage to
Elijah.
    More importantly, could Jessie be right about
Benjamin liking her? It seemed that both Jessie and Nash had
assumed that Benjamin liked her. Sarah had been over this a
thousand times, usually at night when she was trying to sleep.
Sometimes she thought that Benjamin liked her, but then the normal
thing for him to do would be to ask her on a buggy ride, and he had
not done that.
    More than anything, Sarah wanted to be
Benjamin’s fraa . Just as she was coming to terms with the
fact that she never would be, her hopes had been raised again. Was
this the will of Gott , or a cruel trick? Sarah had no
idea.
     

 
    Psalm 23:1-3.
    A Psalm of David. The Lord is my shepherd; I
shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me
beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of
righteousness for his name’s sake.
     
    Chapter
7
    The young people filed into the large
reception room for their turn for the meal. Church spread, made up
of marshmallows and peanut butter, was everywhere, as were bowls of
a mixture of potato chips, corn chips, popcorn, and crackers, as
well as numerous trays of dessert bars and cookies. Jugs of water,
and pots of kaffi , meadow tea, and cocoa were placed around
the table at intervals.
    Sarah was still puzzled by Jessie’s
confession; she wanted to tell the Miller schweschders all
about it, but they were all still consumed with helping with
Hannah’s and Esther’s kinner .
    Sarah sat at the table