My Husband's First Wife Died a Saint, Then I Found Her Key novel · Chapter 22 of 24
Chapter 22: After
Beatrix did not answer him.
She sat in the dead woman's chair until the last of the three hundred had gone home.
At nine that night the driver took her away with two suitcases and her cane, to her sister's in Beaufort.
She did not say goodbye to anyone.
The house on Jones Street was quiet for the first time since I had walked into it.
That afternoon Ivy sat on the front porch with a lawyer from Charleston.
She signed the divorce petition with Patrick's own pen.
She did not cry, and neither did he.
"Thank you for looking," she said when he handed it back. "For three years. I did hear about the culverts."
"I wish I'd looked in the right one."
"You did. You found her." She tilted her head at me. "I told you I'd wait for somebody stubborn."
Then she hugged us both, hard, and she took her mahogany chair.
She carried it down the steps herself and loaded it into a cab.
"It's mine," she said. "It was my chair before it was her shrine."
Now it was midnight, and I stood at the window of the master bedroom in my slip.
The street under the oaks was silent.
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