Three Sisters Divided Over a Limestone Bakery Built in Nineteen Sixty-Eight

told me they would not press charges if the partnership was dissolved and the unauthorized loan application was withdrawn.”

She picked up the pen, her hand steady but slow. “And Beatrice? Is she going to stay and help you with the holiday orders?”

“Beatrice is going to Oregon,” I said. “She is leaving after the first of the month.”

Clara paused, her pen continue reading …