Dominic didn’t leave Harriet’s room while Holly was getting packed. He didn’t want to have another confrontation; firing her had completely drained him. Harriet was upset about the slamming of the door, but Dominic managed to distract her with one of her many jigsaw puzzles. Harriet loved her jigsaws.
They put their heads together over one of the bigger puzzles, Dominic talking to cover up the noise of Holly arguing with Richard. She wasn’t leaving without a fight, that much was clear. Soon, it was getting difficult to distract Harriet from the shouting, and she began to get edgy.
Maybe he should have done this when Harriet wasn’t at home.
Instead, Dominic grabbed their jackets and took Harriet out into the garden, handing her one of the badminton rackets on the way out. The year before
