By the time all the tests were done and my leg had been set in a cast, evening had already fallen. I called home expecting the housekeeper to come look after me, but it turned out Gerald was there too, he had heard I'd been hospitalized with a fracture. He rushed over with Mrs. Webb in tow.
When he saw my leg, thick and clumsy in its plaster cast, his face cycled through anger and worry in the same breath. "You're always so careless," he said. "How did you manage to hurt yourself like this?"
I looked down and chose my words carefully, saying nothing direct. I couldn't tell him the truth, that I'd fallen off a horse, for fear that any digging would uncover everything. Fortunately, Mrs. Calloway and her people had finished the hospital paperwork and slipped away before Gerald arrived, and
