The Secret Between Us novel · Chapter 19 of 24
Chapter 19: The Visit
She came in.
Her coat was draped over one arm, and she carried a small leather folder in the other.
Her face wore the exact expression she wore at funerals, which was the most frightening thing about it.
"Don't get up," she said to my father. "You mustn't."
Nobody had been about to.
Caleb moved to stand between the bed and the door without seeming to move at all.
Cornelia noticed and let it pass.
"I'm told it was a close thing," she said. "A man shouldn't be so hard on himself, at his age."
"What do you want, Cornelia?" my father asked.
His voice was thin, but it didn't shake.
"To help."
"We don't need it."
"You need a great deal, Fergus."
"A daughter dragged through gossip, a shed about to be seized, and a heart that has told you what it thinks of your choices."
She sat on the chair I had left empty, and she crossed her ankles.
"I'm an old woman, and I don't like a mess."
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