A Peasant Girl Chapter 10
Anna and her mother stayed in, huddled by the hearth, all through the cruel winter. Her mother taught her new stitches and cooking, and both remained silent about life, trying to just forget the past and future and live in the now. Anna's mother knew very well what her husband was doing to his daughter; one of the things Sergei Ivanovich had tried to get Anna to react was forcing her to pleasure him while her mother watched, unable to say or do anything. But Anna's mother simply waited...