My Husband's First Wife Died a Saint, Then I Found Her Key novel · Chapter 8 of 24
Chapter 8: The Luncheon
The door did not open.
Patrick was out of the bed and across the room, naked, before the handle stopped turning.
He jammed the dresser chair under the knob.
"Patrick?" Beatrix said through the wood. "You will wake the house."
"Goodnight, Mother."
"Whose bed is that?"
"Mine," I said. "Goodnight, Beatrix."
The silence on the other side lasted a long time.
Then a cane tapped away down the hall.
Patrick came back to bed and laid his forehead on my stomach and laughed until the mattress shook.
On Thursday I called the hospital and did not quit.
I told the charge nurse I was taking leave through spring.
"Girl, what have they done to you?" she said.
"Nothing I can't undo," I said.
That afternoon Beatrix took me to the Garden Society luncheon.
It was held in a long room in a private club on Bull Street.
There were twenty round tables, white linen, and a hundred and ten hats.
I wore a lavender suit of Ivy's and the pearls, and I carried my own purse.
Beatrix sat me at her right at the head table.
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