Right, Alice. If Mrs. Glenn had been at my kitchen table I would have given her Nana Sullivan's "Life's not fair!" right between the eyes.

The bickering drove me nuts.Then I remembered reading about the Donner party and pre-disaster relationships among the women. Apparently, bickering, one-upmanship, class distinction, etc. typified their everyday dealings with one another and did not improve once thay were trapped and living on their wits. Maybe that was the norm.

Certainly, competition was the order of the day between the Mrs. Glenns and Clunes. Mrs. Brookes seemed to keep out of it. Although as a newlywed who hadn't seen her husband to be for a month, she may have had other priorities.