Chapter 21 Evacuate

• He must have slipped away when I finally fell asleep because I remember clinging to him. While I was sleeping, he had gone out of the house to work on some teething problems regarding the expansion.
• Every time Paul left, the maid would always be much kinder to me when she brought my food. We hardly spoke to one another, but I imagined that he knew horrors about Paul that I could not begin to comprehend.
• She must have thought that was what he was doing to me. She even laid out clean clothes for me next to the bed before she left. I could tell from the items she chose that she was relaying a message for comfort.