
You play Emily Starr, eleven, finding words for a sunset while your father, Douglas, fails beside the window at Maywood House. By morning he is gone, and you are deciding what of his to keep before relatives you have never met come to claim you. The Murrays argue over duty behind the parlour door — Elizabeth flatly, Laura tenderly, Cousin Ruth doubtfully — until they let chance decide who takes you in. The slip drawn bears Elizabeth's name.
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