Chapter Thirty-One
St. SebastianThe house is quiet when I’m done with the effigy, and I can’t find Auden anywhere. I’m about to go up to his office to look for him when I find Freddie Dansey of all people coming from the kitchen. I stop short, shocked.
The knowledge of the letter in my bag upstairs burns in my mind.
When Freddie sees me, he gives me a beam of pure relief. “I was worried I missed you! I just spoke with Pickles, and she thought you were in the village, and I didn’t have enough time to chase you there.”
It takes me a minute to remember that Pickles is what Delphine’s parents call her for some unknowable reason. I offer Freddie a tentative smile back. I had Richard Davey of course, and back home in Dallas, I was surrounded by uncles and cousins and a gruffly doting g
