About this story
While the west rooms are readied, an unnamed caller turns out to be your own brother Frank, back from medical study and hiding at the presbytery. He slips away before the carriages arrive, leaving you to receive Kate, and a guest no one downstairs is shown.
How it opens
BabetteRain has dimmed the St. Lawrence, but every room in Danton Hall remains ready.
BabetteFour years and only two visits have left you managing the house by means of the Captain's letters.
BabetteA letter has come from Montreal, Miss Grace, carried faster than this weather permits.
Bring coal and find Eeny; if the Captain is near, every upstairs room must be opened.
BabetteEven the west suite, miss, though nobody has told us who will occupy it?
Choose
Eeny should hear news of her father beside me.
I will read first and spare her any alarm.