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What Vivian Saved for the Doorstep
Sunday. The hornbeam alley, seven in the evening.
The garden house showed her two lit windows, and Maya counted the dark ones as she came up the clipped alley with a bottle of wine she already knew Vivian would not open. Five dark. Daniel had told her once that the garden house had seven bedrooms, and his mother lived in two of them, a lamp burning in a shut museum.
She had spent the afternoon in the drawing room, her one room for the day, and it had given her nothing except a number. She was keeping a private tally now: rooms in this house where paper lived. The study, none. The drawing room, none. The only handwriting of her husband's she had ever seen was the note he left on her pillow the morning after the wedding.
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