”“Phyllis.”“I don’t know much about cooking. I’ve washed the dirt off vegetables and peeled them. One thing you should know.”“I know all about cooking.”“I’m close to my period. I think the jolting of the chariot might have brought it on.” Women who were bleeding were generally not used to prepare food. Mutter thought it a superstition, but Mutter had not learned much more than language in her time in Italy.“Well, we don’t want you in the kitchen, then. Do you know anything about the garden?”So Gretchen spent the next several days gardening. She ate with the kitchen slaves and slept in Phyllis’s room.Phyllis remembered her from when she was a baby. “Dominus bought your mother because she was nursing you. When Domina delivered, he sent you here; and your mother nursed the baby. We put you on goat’s milk and mashed turnips. You had trouble at first, but you were stomping around and getting into everything before we sent you back. Dominus was pleased that you survived.”“That was good of. “If that had been a full thirteen in that time, it would have been great. We need to cut it to under seven minutes a mile to be competitive. Six minutes to be on the podium. How much time do we have before a half?”“You’re running it, too,” I said. “Labor Day in Noblesville. The high school competition will be at the same time as everyone else.”“Three and a half weeks. Yeah. We can do this.”I wasn’t quite sure what it was she thought we could do but I agreed. Sure, we can do this.Practice that afternoon was terrible. It was eighty-five degrees and muggy as a swamp. To top it off, Jock wanted me to lead a ten-mile run. I must have physically drooped as I moaned.“Hopkins. What’s the matter with you? I want a nine-minute pace. You should be back here in ninety minutes.”“I don’t know if I can do a nine-minute pace for ten miles today, coach.”“Are you sick? What’s the problem?”“Nan and I already did ten this morning. I don’t know if I can do ten more.”“At what pace?”“We varied but ended up.
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