Unfamiliar cars lined his driveway, so she’d had to park on the street. She’d planned to come earlier in the day, before Mitch’s mother arrived, but Joanie had needed her help all day, preparing for the Gardner family Thanksgiving. Maybe she should have waited until later in the evening, after the Carsons left. No, Angie would be home from school by now, and she’d been looking forward to putting the shelf up. She’d just drop the shelf off and leave. Shopping with Angie for her bedroom furnishings had been so much fun. Once Mitch’s mother-in-law had left, Sophie had helped Angie change back into play clothes and they’d made a list of things to look for. Then they’d spent a fun afternoon planning how to arrange her room and shopping in the small shops in Zutphen. She went around the house to the back door and knocked. Hopefully most of the company would be in the living room at the front. On the other hand, if everyone was in the front room, nobody would hear her knock.
