Her Neighborly Love

Franny could not credit her senses that it had ever happened before that the whole family was together at home for lunch. But it was immensely pleasant around the kitchen table, the five of them: father, mother, Otto, Martin and Franny. Mother served pea soup with pieces of bacon in it. That was the very thing for the first day with snow of the season. The city of Leeuwarden (capital of the Dutch province of Friesland) was suddenly confronted with heavy falls of snow and a stingingly cold...