Chapter 21Monday night’s guild meeting is filling up, people greeting each other from opposite ends of the room and exclaiming over the new fabric lines that Ruth has just put on display. Emma has to lean closer to Mavis to make herself heard, even though their chairs are only inches apart. She tells her about Suzanne, about the plans for the gallery, how maybe Mavis’s son-in-law Mark could help do some of the work to get the place ready. When Emma finishes her report, Mavis reaches into her purse, pulls out her pinging phone, looks at the screen and mutes it. “That was Sherilyn right now; I’ll tell her to tell Mark. I’d like to see something happen with that building,” she says. “It was built by Charlie Martin — Shana Martin’s daddy — way back in the day. His second wife’s the one who ope
