Summary

Chapter 15 brought the start of December. Susan made plans to spend Christmas with her aunt. Rob came by to drop off some of her mother’s things. She invited him in, hoping to get more information on her brother, but he did not have anything different to offer. He told her instead that he was pursuing the mother of his child, Alison, on Facebook, but was having trouble finding her. Susan showed him her collection of cacti, and he gave her unwanted advice on how to get them to bloom.

In Chapter 16, Kate dropped Susan off in Birmingham. First, she went to the church to meet with the vicar and interview him about her mother’s state of mind. He said that she was sometimes confused about small things, but she was overall in great mental shape. He said that she had told...