As a wraith she had remarkable staying power. “How long they were married I don’t know. Two years? Could he have even known her? Did she suspect, when they married, that something was wrong with her? I don’t think so. She was more surprised than anyone. “Clay was devastated. If she hadn’t been so determined in the first place, they’d never have been married. And if she hadn’t been three times as adaptable as he was—women are—they’d have never stayed married. He woke one morning like a man who’d had a cathedral fall in on him. Lucy’d been buried in the family plot in Manchester or nearby, and here he was in this house, this present he’d bought her, with the mother upstairs, the brothers, the nephews and nieces, the furniture and the Canaletto. “The whole thing makes sense as a monument to Lucy Stillton. Lucy wouldn’t have bought the Hopper, or the Gericault Mad Woman, or that cow. Or…” “No,” Fred said, “you’re right.
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