The wife he left behind
Sophia said, entirely without false modesty, because she did know, because she’d been paying attention too.
Mac gave him a small compass, old and beautiful, the kind that worked by principle rather than battery, and said when he gave it, “For all the roads ahead. So you always know which way you’re going.”
Dave held it in his palm, feeling the slight satisfying weight of it.
“I think Mabel would have approved of this,” he said.
“I bought it hoping you’d say that,” Mac said.
Cloe gave him a photograph, framed properly, the one from the archive, Mabel standing in the doorway of Whitmore House with the tree brooch on her dress, looking directly into the camera with the expression that had no wo
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