The Next of Kin Those who Wait and Wonder

It was a bleak day in November, with a thick, gray sky, and a great, noisy, blustering wind that had a knack of facing you, no matter which way you were going; a wind that would be in ill-favor anywhere, but in northern Alberta, where the wind is not due to blow at all, it was what the really polite people call «impossible.» Those who were not so polite called it something quite different, but the meaning is the same.