Evelyn's POV
I was in Aunt Mirabel's kitchen helping Moses make breakfast when I heard the car pull up outside.
Moses heard it too. He turned down the heat on the stove and went to the window without making a sound. He looked out for a moment, then turned to me with a calm face that said "do not panic" before anything else did.
"Richard is here," he said.
My spoon fell on the floor.
Matthew appeared in the kitchen doorway. "Benjamin is already at the gate."
I walked to the front room and looked through the narrow window beside Aunt Mirabel's door. Richard's car was parked on the road outside. He was standing on the pavement in a dark coat, and beside him, in a wheelchair being pushed by his driver, was Elizabeth, his grandmother.
She was wrapped in a thick shawl, and even from this
