Chapter 3: The Village Over the Mountain Summary

The woman assures Greta that they will arrive safety in Blue Cove. Greta asks if she willd be able to enter the village. The woman tells her that she has the look of a person who would always be welcome there. The woman lets her off on the edge of a curtain of fog, telling her to go to the second house where she would find Retha Morrill, a girl near her age. Greta has played in the area before, climbing in and out of the cellar holes. But now, as she walks toward the fog, she sees the outline of a barn and then that of a small, neat house. A large, beautiful gray cat brushes against her leg. She tries to pick him up, but he runs ahead almost leading the...