“Do you have time for a little gossip?” Iris asked giddily.

Intrigued, Jane said, “What’s the goss? Tell me. I have all the time in the world. You can go on even for an hour.”

“My boy wants to learn to knit.”

Jane was confused. “Why does he want to knit? We don’t even know how to.

“Hardly anyone here knits. We might get a week or two of cold spells in a year. All we need to do is layer up. It’s not the weather for sweaters, but a hand-knitted sweater is warm.”

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