Chapter 32

Wallie arrived that evening. Katherine was still shut in her room. Now and then Judy would wander in, but Katherine was absorbed in her grief, alone with it. She would kiss Judy and then forget she was there. But she made a ghastly mistake when she refused to see Wallie. One gesture from her then, one bit of recognition of their common grief, their common loss, and things would have been different. Whatever might be his weaknesses, Wallie had cared about his father, and he looked stricken when I went in to see him.…