Chapter 34

“How about Princess?” Charlie asked. “That’s a good name.” She looked over at her new friend Katrinka who was walking beside her leading the small mare. The mare’s recovery was little short of miraculous, so much so that Aunt Mandy had decided that she could be out in the north pasture. The two girls were leading her there, trying to figure out a good name for her.

“It’s okay, I guess. Do you think Papa Lachlan will let us name her? She’s his horse, isn’t she? Maybe he wants to name her.”

“Katrinka,” Charlie said in a small voice, “do you think your Papa Lachlan will get to like me? Mama said he was my uncle, but he never came to see me.”

“Oh, I bet he’ll like you fine. And wait till you taste the waffles he makes. Uncle Gus says that they are the best. And he likes to take me for ice cream, I bet he’ll take you too, if we ask him. I bet he’ll let us name her. And if we do it before he gets back, she’ll already have a name. It’ll be too late to change it then. And he likes me, I can tell, so he won’t be mad.”