"I like you very much, Mother Blacke." She smiled then. The girl was quite winsome when she smiled, it was a wonder Joe fawned all over her. And the kindness that shone in those big brown eyes of her set her above ladies of her ilk. She might have seemed impulsive, but she would make for a fine wife.

And a mother, unbeknownst to her at the moment since she didn't know yet that there would be a babe.