Jonathan called ahead to let the carriage driver (he had been asked to wait for them) know that they were on their way back. He also let them know that it would be two teenagers, an adult, and an adult chaperone, in this case, one of Carter’s guys. They reached Garido and met Mrs.Beth’s parents or Norma’s so-called in-laws and brought her back.
Jonathan and Carter stayed behind to take care of the details of making it legal for them to take Norma with them. When they left, he was in a conversation with Mom, and he assumed that she would end up with one more ward before all this was over.
For a while, Norma kept crying, although whether it was out of relief to be away from her in-law parents, tears of pain, or overwhelming sadness they couldn’t figure it out. They couldn’t get her to talk
