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Adelaide, like all the other women who stayed over, was invited to sleep in the main house. The bedrooms filled with children and their mothers, so Adelaide was left to sleep in a chair in the living room on the ground floor. There were two other chairs here. Grace slept in one. Sam chose not to sleep with the boys in the nearby bedroom, but out here by his mother. Maybe it was true that he didn't get along well with other kids. Funny how this only made Adelaide feel more tender toward the child. Men bedded down out on the granary floor.
Difficult to claim Adelaide enjoyed any rest. Instead, she kept getting up to wander the main house, scanning for Mrs. Mudge. Why did this woman's lie bother her? A guilty soul is always troubled by its reflection.