Chapter Seven
Lessons In Surrender
In the morning, Mrs. Langshire released Meri and Ella from their respective prisons. Each was told to bathe and then get on with their day as usual; nothing further said about the night they’d spent. Alain had gone in to work early, probably leaving plenty of questions unanswered – especially for his wife.
He decided to let her stew. She needed a few sobering hours to contemplate her missteps.
Meri spent the day in her studio doing sketches of the trees outside the tall studio windows. Despite the budding spring leaves, the images she sketched were stark and bold and a little frightening. Everything like her sullen mood. Had her world become so bleak? Her marriage so strained? She wished that the hellcat in the kitchen would just be gone, but there we
