Get it now...but Anjali needs help.

Sanjay considered Keith's offer to pull their truck out so they could get an early start if the weather broke. He asked his wife, "Anjali, would it be all right if they get the truck now?"

She replied, "Very well, that way we will not lose it in the snow and make Ashok mad!" She sounded a bit peevish to him, but she always looked especially pretty to him when she was annoyed. Though it wasn't good if she was annoyed for very long.

"All right then," Keith said. "Maybe you can help me get it hitched up." Keith and Sanjay busied themselves with getting the winch ready to pull the red pickup back on the road. "You say you were going to meet your friend Ashok at Cave Springs?" Keith continued out of curiosity. "You two been there before?"

"No, we have not been there before together," Sanjay said. "Anjali was there last winter with Ashok and she had such a good time that she insisted I take time off to come."

"Ginny and I like Cave Springs a lot," Keith said. "We met each other for the first time there. Your wife tell you what to expect when you visit in winter?"

"Yes, I understand winter is a special time there," Sanjay said. "Lots to see, Anjali told me."

Virginia went around the truck to help Anjali out before the men started up the winch. Though she had warm clothes and boots, Anjali seemed to move with discomfort, and Virginia asked her if she was hurt.

Anjali replied, "Hurt, no. Uncomfortable, yes. Will we be back at your place soon?" Her city boots slid on the packed snow of the road.

"Perhaps twenty minutes," Virginia said. "Are you all right?"

"I'm bursting for a wee," Anjali said. She looked around at the thick snow on the steep slopes on each side of the road. "But I don't want to go off the road and step in a hole or fall down the hill."

Virginia saw a young fir tree with thickly needled branches a few dozen paces up the road. "Why don't you walk up the road past that tree? You don't even need to step off the road." Virginia felt a little pressure in her own bladder. "Maybe I'll go up after you're finished."

"Thank you," Anjali said. She smiled with her bright white teeth in her dark face, straightened her coat and walked up the snow-covered road. After ten steps, her smooth-soled boots slipped out from under her and she went sprawling on her back with a yelp.

Sanjay and Keith looked around and saw Anjali lying in the road, looking like a dark-haired, red-and-gold snow angel.

Ginny crunched up on her snow boots and knelt down by Anjali to help her up. Anjali looked more mad than hurt. "Do you need a hand getting up the road?" Ginny asked.