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everything." Nettie looked at Melissa, expecting her to look exceedingly worried, but she simply shrugged.
    "Well, if it's Gott's will, it’s Gott's will."
    Nettie was puzzled. "What do you mean, Melissa? If Jebediah Sprinkler gets my haus and land, then I’ll have nothing. I'll be homeless."
    "Not homeless surely. The bishop will find you a familye to live with. You could even come and live with us."
    Nettie was growing more exasperated by the minute. "But it’s my property, my haus and farm."
    Melissa shrugged again. "You have to have faith, Nettie, faith to leave it all in the hands of Gott . If it turns out that the will is found, well that will be only because Gott wants it to be found. Gott might have another plan for you."
    That’s what you think , Nettie thought with some resentment. Of course Gott wouldn’t want me to be homeless; if I find that will, I will burn it .
    "Anyway," Melissa continued, "You could marry my bruder , Daniel."
    Nettie spluttered over her tea once more. "Daniel? Marry?"
    Melissa laughed at Nettie's discomfort. " Jah , he likes you. He was jealous about seeing you with that mann ."
    Nettie's heart raced and her palms grew sweaty. "Did he say so?" She held her breath until Melissa answered.
    Melissa chuckled. " Nee , but he didn’t have to. He was jealous all right, and I know he likes you. He's never been interested in any maidel before. I know a lot about menner ; you know where I work, don’t you?"
    Nettie tried to remember. " Nee , I don’t think so; I only know that you work three days a week."
    Melissa nodded. " Jah , I work for a matchmaking agency. I mostly do the paperwork, but all the menner who are on the agency's books seem so predictable, at least on paper. I don’t interview anyone; my boss Harriet does that. I’ll never get married."
    Nettie was so shocked that she forgot about her own predicament for the moment. "You'll never get married? What about kinner ? Don’t you want bopplis ?"
    "I do want bopplis ," Melissa said, "but I don’t want to get married until I'm almost too old to have bopplis ." She chuckled.
    The girls then sipped their tea in companionable silence. Nettie's thoughts soon drifted to Daniel. His schweschder , Melissa, had just told her that Daniel liked her. Nettie was also developing feelings for Daniel. Nettie saw a problem with this. If she destroyed the will, then she could not see herself courting Daniel at any time. Nettie would not be able to keep the fact that she had destroyed the will from Daniel, so then what sort of person would he think she was? As far as Nettie saw it, she had two choices if the will did come to light. The first was to destroy the will, keep her haus and farm, and deny her attraction to Daniel. The second was to let Jebediah Sprinkler have her own property, and throw herself onto the will of Gott .
    It was only later that night, as Nettie tossed and turned in bed thinking over both options, that she thought that perhaps she should stop plotting and planning, and have faith to let Gott have His will and way in the matter.
     

Hebrews 11:6.
And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
     
    Chapter 14 .
    Nettie drove Blessing to the Schlabachs' haus where the fortnightly church meeting was to be held on this occasion. She was in plenty of time, for the service always started at eight. Yet Nettie felt sick to the stomach with the thought of being around so many people. Sure, she had been around a crowd of people at the viewing and the funeral, but she was in such a state back then that she had paid it no mind. Now, however, she was actively dreading it.
    Nettie tied up Blessing and was nervously making her way to the haus , when she heard a horse snorting. She turned around and saw that Blessing was walking away from the haus , pulling the empty buggy behind him. Nettie hurried after him and to her embarrassment,