text: Grit took Astrid for a walk around town while Colleen visited with the registrar to determine if she would be admitted to the university.
  
  "If we can get the record of your high school graduation," the registrar said, "and if your grades are as good as you say, you'll be admitted without an entrance exam. So your next step would be to get your high school records sent to us. When we receive them we'll notify you by mail of your acceptance."
  
  "What if I am heavy with a child?" Colleen asked. "I'm a married woman. So far we only have the little girl we adopted, but I expect one day I'll have a baby."
  
  "You might have to skip a term, but being with child is not a problem as long as you can do the work," he said.
  
  "I have no doubt I can do the work," she said.
  
  When she came out of the registrar's office, she saw Grit and Astrid sitting on a bench near the side door of University Hall.
  
  "Everything okay?" Grit asked.
  
  "Seems to be," she said. "I need to get St. Anthony's in Chicago to send my records to the university. He said with my grades I could be admitted without an entrance exam."
  
  "Then that settles it," he said. "We'll be moving here and getting settled before school begins."
  
  "Are you really gonna do that?" she asked.
  
  Grit laughed. "I said I was. Didn't you hear me?"
  
  "Yes, but I can't believe you're doing all that for me."
  
  Grit leaned down next to Colleen's ear and whispered, "Believe it."