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Wednesday. The garden house, just past nine.
She made herself do the morning in its order. Coffee at the right hour, the gates given their slow count of two hundred after the gray car took the hornbeams, the lawn crossed at a wife's pace with a cup she had no plans for. Discipline was the last thing on this property that was hers, and she spent it the way misers spend, constantly, in small denominations.
The white room held its early light. The desk held the laptop, squared. The paperback sat where the blue dish used to sit, exactly where she had left it, spine to the glass.
She knew before she opened it. That was becoming the signature of this house, that the certainty always arrived a half step ahead of the proof, walking point. The book fell open where a thickness asked it to, two-thirds through, at a page she had never dog-eared.
Against the spine, folded once, lay a typed slip.
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