Without any further warning, James Blay Jr, true to his word, sold the eighty-acre farm with the house his brothers, William, and John, had built for Catherine and the girls. Catherine moved in with Sadie and Felix.
‘Your husband took his revenge without delay,’ Felix said to his mother-in-law. ‘As soon as he heard from the solicitor William and I engaged, he acted. He couldn’t sell your properties with the caveat, so he sold the farm. Why is he this way? He behaves as if he were the transported convict needing to lash out at the world.’
Catherine didn’t answer. Although upset at leaving the farm and the home she had made, she was grateful the properties Teddy had left her were still hers - and being able to live in New Norfolk, close to her daughters and granddaughters and her sister -
