i let out a small laugh and she looked up at me . this woman was starting a fight with her ! there was nothing but corn from horizon to horizon with this little plot of trees being the only relief in sight . i read my way through that bookshelf a dozen times over , and it was always fresh and new . at the fork in the road we turned left , and a few hundred yards in that direction and we indeed saw a building in the distance . we settle on the front lawn . 