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Caitlynn Aine O’Hannigan turns three. 1 May 1976.
Despite the chilled atmosphere, Dr. O’Hannigan kept his word: both Saint and Dublin were kept in a fenced-in kennel at the back of the stone mansion. Only at night did their frustrated howling remind the visitors of their banishment.
Connor avoided Emilee’s eyes as she searched for an answer for the icy reception she had received from his mother. She was convinced that had she come without the child, the front door would have been slammed shut in her face a second time.
Caitlynn refused to surrender her effervescent spirit to the sulking moods of her father or grandmother. The grandfather was less cantankerous. He was the one who soon shooed the trio outside, to go show the child the sea.
The little girl needed only one walk along t
