Chapter Fifteen
MISS SISSY DID WAKE up in a far better mood than she’d been in when she fell asleep. With a full stomach and a nap behind her, she was ready to go back home. And Len wrapped up for the day just a couple of hours after that.
The next couple of days went by much quieter than the previous ones. Len made quick progress in the house and Noo-noo made lots of quilting friends at the Patchwork Cottage. Beatrice finished up her work on the diaper bag and brought it over for Piper and they ate ice cream together (something Piper had been craving lately and which Beatrice was happy to indulge in, herself).
The morning of Gerald’s funeral dawned rainy.
Beatrice looked out the bedroom window at the unrelenting rain. “This looks like the kind of day that Hollywood would create for a
