Joy in the morning

["I pity the man who marries you, Sister Rachel," Jacob said in a low, teasing voice. "If my future husband is to be pitied, Captain Phillips, then most certainly your future wife is to be envied. How blessed is the woman whom your gaze glances upon and how fortunate is she whose privilege it is to tend and care for and mend and cook for one such as yourself. no doubt she shall give daily thanks that the task of being your wife fell to her." Jacob reached out with his fingers and caught the tie of her bonnet, pulling it taut so that the bow came undone. Yet still he held it in his fingers. "You mock me."] After Captain Jacob Phillips, anti-Mormon and mobocrat, was wounded by one of his own men, Captain Snow forces Rachel Spaulding to nurse him on the long journey to Salt Lake Valley. Nursing him, the man she holds responsible for her mother's death, seems more than a fair burden for young Rachel to assume. The task requires all the faith Rachel possesses and still seems impossible." But as her mother often quoted from Psalms, "...weeping may endure for the night, but joy cometh in the morning."