The Shunning Page #2

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Ella Mae.

Happened to pay a visit to Ephram

Yoder's store this morning.

There was a fancy English

woman there who give me this.

I don't understand.

What made her

give this to you?

What ya say?

She was a determined woman.

And I didn't want this letter to

fall into anyone else's hands,

except yours.

Should you need me,

I'll come.

Leave me

to do this, Katie.

Go upstairs and finish

stitching your wedding dress.

I'd rather

be here with you.

No, I insist.

Go on. Right now.

Mama.

You'll be awful busy being a

wife and mother to those boys.

We likely won't

see much of ya,

except for

the Sunday preachings.

Never far away, Mama.

Never far away, Katie.

So, have you chosen

a side-sitter yet?

Jah,

my youngest brother, Noah.

Boys, what do you

think of the shoofly pie?

Delicious.

I'm gonna need

another slice right quick.

It's Katie's recipe,

you know.

Our good fortune, then.

Katie'll makes us lots of good pies

when she's our mam, won't ya?

You'll have to patient with me, little Jacob.

Never been a mama before.

Dat, can we play

checkers after supper?

Jah, Benjamin will

get out the card.

Maybe Katie can

sing to us, too.

The song you were singing today,

from the other hymn book.

You must be confused, Son.

We only have one

hymn book, the Ausband.

We do not sing

the songs of the English.

That is what sets

our world apart.

JACOB:
All I know is

it's real nice.

Katie, will ya

please sing it?

Jacob, that's enough

about the singing.

Finish your pie.

Now stop your worrying.

She's a willful child.

But she knows

right from wrong.

It's not that.

An English woman gave this to

Ella Mae Zook to pass along.

I've been too

afraid to open it.

Oh, dear God.

This woman promised

to leave us alone.

We all made a promise.

She's staying at

the fancy hotel in the city.

She's not leaving, Samuel.

What are we going to do?

Nothing.

If we don't respond,

the matter's dead and buried.

No one can find out.

If anyone finds out,

it would change everything.

Our whole life here.

Guess who?

(LAUGHING)

When I heard that

clacking at my window,

I thought maybe Noah King was

finally coming to call on me.

I thought you were

sweet on Elam Glick.

Can't choose between the two.

(BOTH LAUGH)

You're blessed to be marrying

John Beiler, you know?

He's a good man.

I just wonder if I'm fit

to be the Bishop's wife.

How can I be the kind

of wife he needs,

the kind of mother

those boys need

when I can't

even control myself?

What are you talking about?

Little Jacob overheard me

singing one of my songs today

and told everybody

at supper.

Katie, I thought you

was clean past all that.

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