‘But she must be … what … forty years younger than him. She can’t be.’ ‘Half-sister, of course,’ Gladwin elaborated. ‘Child of a district nurse who visited the Meadows when the wife had a septic leg. Thirty-two years ago. The old man was over seventy …’Thea tried to do the arithmetic. ‘Nearly eighty, surely,’ she concluded. ‘His eldest son is eighty now. And he’s been dead ten years. Wait a minute,’ she jotted figures on the edge of a convenient newspaper. ‘He must have been born about 1900, and Melissa about 1980. Yes, he’d have been close to eighty. How old was the district nurse?’‘I have no idea. But it looks as if Oliver was the only one who knew about it. Even the old man was never told, apparently.’‘So did Melissa really think Fraser was her father? Did she never meet him?’ ‘Seems not. Fraser was in Australia the whole time it was happening. We have no idea what she was told about him – or him about her. But we’ll ask Oliver. There’s a lot we need to ask Oliver.’‘And the older one?
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