She looked past him out the window. “You never know ahead of time what something’s really going to be like.”
The bus had stopped. Leslie took May Belle’s hand and led her off.
Jess followed, still trying to figure out why two grown people and a smart girl like Leslie
wanted to leave a comfortable life in the suburbs for a place like this. They watched the bus roar off.
“You can’t make a go of a farm nowadays, you know,” he said finally.
“My dad has to go to Washington to work, or we wouldn’t have enough money...” “Money is not the problem.”
“Sure it’s the problem.” “I mean,” she said stiffly, “not for us.”
It took him a minute to catch on. He did not know people for whom money was not the problem.
“Oh.” He tried to remember not to talk about money with her after that.
But Leslie had other problems at Lark Creek that caused more of a rumpus than lack of money.
There was the matter of television. It started with Mrs. Myers reading out loud a composition that Leslie had written about her hobby.
Everyone had to write a paper about his or her favorite hobby.
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