jenny wilder was oneday went to the ingals claima nd with carrie and cansadra theyw ent up to the olesons mercantile in town. jenny was buying a present for clay thomas's birthday and clay thomas was geting a birthday present for her because they're birthday were only a week apart thye would clebrate right in the middle of the week one night on their strolls. while they were int he store carrie and casandra looked at fabrics of lawn and calico something that they could make into a dress for their sunday best. well jeb carter came in to the store asking mr oleson for suppilies and . jenny couldnt help to look at him . she remmebered the fun times thye use to have together and how they didnt have to court ins ecret but instead they could court infront of everyone and sit in church together or go wading in the pond near great uncle charles and geart auntie carolines place . she withed they could still be friends but that seemed highly unlikely espically sinceclay didnt want jeb anywhere near jenny. he told ehr he would punch and beat him up. evn though she knew that ckay would probally do that very thing jenny wilder walked up to jeb and asked" ho w are things going fine" he looked down( caus ehe was sixfeet talla nd jenny wa sfivefoot four) " im doing fine" " how are you" he continued " fine" jenny answered right before jenny could utter another work nancy olesoncame in form the back room where the oleson lived and called to jeb" come on in" jebby" what does she mean " " nancy asked me over lunch" jeb repiled "oh" jenny said and looked down at the floor " i hop its okay i won't got go if you dont want me tooo " "i think you should go,its not like were courting anymore" jennny said and then she walked over to cansadra and carrie " thats the first time youve talkd to him in two months" cansdra said " well i think he stil lovs you and you love him ,,andthat you should make up before you get to invouled with clay and he gets to invouled with nancy" carrie said " what happened youa nd clay" laura said coming from al the way oover from the book shelves with wernt more gthen ten feet away " are you courting cla jenny" laura asked " yes aunt laura" " well i want you to brake it up or you 'll have uncle monzo to deal with' " yes aunt laura" " rose lets go" rose was seven year sold and her hair did not resmeble her mothe ror her father but a bit of her aunt eliza jane with had dark red hair. in her early years the hair was a a very light red but time had darken ------------------------------------------------------- charles ingalls paced back and fourth ont he platfrom waiting for the stage coash to come into mansifield missouri " charles stop pacing" caroline ordered charles answered" id otn think i can for the first time in many years since we seen her daughter and that was our last christmas on plum creek . " ir emmber it wa smonths before rose was born and few months beofore we left for bur oak. caroline said charles kept pacing laura comes out the mail room" i cant wait for you to meet your aunt mar girls" laura saysd to rose and jenny paul coley asked" who aunt mary' " pual how many time sdo i have to tell you to stop asking soo meny quesons." he say in his naturah irsih acent almonzo answers" aunt mary is miss lauras older sister. shes blind and ben teaching in a blind school in chicago while ehr hsuband works as a lawyer his name adam kendal" so the stage coach pulled up infront of the mail office wore mrs foster worked and mr.s oleson gosshiped and putted down all the poor new commrs of th town. charles jumped off the platfrom when he swa the stage ciach door opening. the first perosn who stepped off was his daughter mary ingals kendal. he ran over to her and hugged her and then laura let go of roses hand and gave her to almonzo not tryin gto mak the same mistake hty emade years ago when rose was kidnapped. " its so could to be home" mary said hugging pa and then moving on to ma