Callum’s daughter Anna at three was exactly herself in the most complete sense.
She had her mother’s structural clarity and her father’s warmth and something that belonged to neither of them, a quality of absolute certainty about what she wanted that arrived fully formed and did not require negotiation.
She visited the estate in the October of her third year with Callum and Petra and she walked through the estate with the proprietary air of someone taking inventory of a place she had decided belongs to her.
She had strong opinions about the east garden.
She had a working relationship with Mrs. Aldren based on mutual recognition of two people who ran things.
She and Rose spent two days in what Rose described as a collaboration, the nature of which was never fully explained to the adult
