Chapter 12After Aunt Deirdre told Emma about the newest flowers in the conservatory at the Paddington estate, my daughter begged to see them. Timothy offered to drive Emma back and forth, but I saw it as an opportunity to talk with Eustacia and Jennifer Paddington, his aunt and sister, to inquire what they knew about the robberies. We followed Aunt Deirdre and Timothy—I refused to call him Uncle Timothy this late in the game—to the estate. The three-story manor had been built in the early twentieth century and was approaching its one-hundredth anniversary. Timothy had mentioned throwing a soirée that summer for all their friends to celebrate his family's history and rise from the ashes of the year's tragedies. A small parking lot, a cedar-chipped path, and lush gardens with shrubbery and t
