9. Elizabeth, Lighthouse Point“What do you think?”
Ghisèle has been walking around the old depot site with Elizabeth for an hour. As they toured the scrap heaps, the abandoned railroad track, the dilapidated stone-and-wood hangars, she’d listened to her childhood friend outline her plan.
The time she spent abroad, and now the solitude, have changed her. Ghisèle is no longer sure she recognises this person who, in all seriousness, is entertaining crazy ambitions. She feels her body shudder—with cold, because of the north wind sure to bring snow, or with fear?
“It doesn’t seem like a very practical plan.”
Converting this abandoned depot, accessible only by boat, into a distillery is sheer insanity.
“The location is ideal!” Elizabeth retorts. “The distillery can take its water from the r
