“Gloryanna Winters is the woman you and Matthew mistook me for when I first arrived.” Willie nodded. “Who is she?”
Willie sighed so heavily Sally turned to see if her mother was all right. “I’m fine, Sugar,” Willie said. “Ma is tired is all.” Willie turned her full attention onto me. “Gloryanna Winters is the woman Matthew was in love with.”
“What happened to her?” I asked.
“As far as anyone knows she disappeared. Oh, but Grace, I’ve never seen a man fall so hard and so fast for a woman the way Matthew fell for Gloryanna. It seemed like she dropped out of heaven. One day, there she was, and Matthew loved her the first time he saw her. She had come to Lowell to stay with her cousins, the Emersons.”
“The Emersons?”
“You’ve seen their cousin Enoch Emerson, that tall widower who comes aro
