Florence asked Cathy to sit with her in the parlor. Cathy was still trying to figure out the best way to break the news to her grandmother. When they were seated on the couch and Gran had brought the tea, Cathy said, “Did you know that Maggie subscribed to a lot of cat and celebrity gossip magazines? You pick up a few of those at the grocery store yourself, but she ordered them all through Publisher’s Clearinghouse.”
“What does that have to do with Maggie’s will?”
“She won. That’s what. Maggie won the Publisher’s Clearinghouse contest.”
“That’s crazy, Catherine. If she’d won a contest, we would all know about it. Pauline would’ve been the first to spread the news.”
“Maggie kept this to herself. The only one who knew was Mr. Dexter. She made him promise to keep it a secret.”
“How much
