“Thank you, I think.”
“As for James, a big brother notices things others cannot. People usually don’t see their own paths clearly.”
“I wish you could tell me mine now. What do I do now that my whole life seems to be changing?”
“You make a new life.”
She sighed. “If only it were that easy.”
“If it were easy, you wouldn’t value it as much.”
A knock sounded at the parlor door.
“Miss Barnes, Mr. Newhouse is here to see you.” Meg, their housekeeper announced
Helen released her hold on Jack. “What could he possibly have left to say to me after last night?”
“Do you want me to throw him out?”
“No, Jack, but I would appreciate you staying with me to meet him. Meg, you may show him in.”
Helen waited near the sofa, and Jack moved to the far wall looking more like a sentry than the loving a
