CHAPTER 27
SEEKING A REUNION
‘May I help you?’ Lillian asked.
The young woman, her hair sharply pulled back from her face, looked nervously around the display area. By her plain dated-looking dress, Lillian assumed she was lost but then she suddenly recognised her. What was the girl doing here of all places?
‘Yes, I’m looking for Alice. Is she here?’
Hearing the familiar name gave Lillian a fright, until recalling Patricia had chosen it as an alias – their mother’s name – for her baby-fostering enterprise. Her pulse ticked against her temple. Go away, she wanted to say.
‘Although…’ the familiar girl touched the mannequin. ‘I’m not sure I’ve come to the right place. I was sure this was it.’ She leaned in close and sniffed the fabric. ‘Didn’t this use to be a house? A woman named Alice
