Chapter 14Sylvia waved Walt and Lucy off to London at the station in Taunton three days before Christmas and turned the nose of the Austin back toward home. She was looking forward to a few days’ solitude, puttering around and only doing the bare minimum. She thought she’d probably go to church on Christmas morning. It would be nice to see her fellow villagers and catch up on any new gossip.
Apart from that though, she would curl up in front of the fire, indulge her not-so-secret love of novels, and thoroughly enjoy some time by herself. Lucy living at Bradfield made everything perfect. She was kind and happy and interesting and made Sylvia laugh aloud several times a day.
It felt like she and Walt and Lucy had created a tiny little family of siblings, bonded through shared experience. A
