Ten-year-old Glendella Ludlow loved being in her new home, and was very interested to meet the Ludlow little ones' music teacher, Col. F.V. Wozniak.
“Of course you can sing – you're one of us now, and everything we can have, you can have too," eleven-year-old Eleanor Ludlow, Glendella's cousin and adopted sister and new best friend, said to her.
“I really do feel that, and I do love to sing,” Glendella said. “I wonder if way back there with Lord Tristan Ludlow, we had some musician relatives.”
“Well, we know in Papa's branch of the family, the Lees-of-the-Mountain are full of musicians, but Papa did say that his Ludlow grandfather was an excellent musician too, so, it's gotta go back a ways,” Eleanor said. “But the more important thing, Glennie, is that we are human, and so God gave us all stuff, and then we are with God again in Christ, so He is redeeming the stuff He gave us.”
“I really feel, living here, that I understand everything better, because being adopted into this new family really does make it all make sense,” Glendella said. “Not that it is all perfect … .”
“Listen, George, today is the day of your music lesson, but Col. Wozniak does not want to hear the tune you are about to sing if you make me come out there and make you put that hose and those Coca-Cola and those Mentos down, right there!”
“But, Papa, we won't even need water – once you get the Coke in there, the thing works by itself!”
“What did I just say, George?”
Glendella sighed.
“Poor George,” she said. “He's going to be a great artist and inventor later if he can just survive to be ten years old.”
“I need him to stop trying to get to Heaven early – him and friend Milton,” Eleanor said.
“Yeah, those two are trying to get Upgrade Papa and Sgt. Trent to send them on home,” Glendella said, “but at least they feel safe enough to try new things here. Grumps and Bad Grandma would have locked them in the basement and thrown down bread and water a few times a day a long time ago.”
“Yeah, we don't do that here,” Eleanor said. “Sheesh, Glendella!”
“It's like being in God's family, versus being in the devil's family – if you know, you know,” Glendella said.