Both are true.

He’ll have to learn to hold both, the way I have.”

Chapter 23 — Ophelia

Ophelia received a formal apology from Beaufort Ashworth — delivered in person, not by letter, the old man standing on her small porch with his hat in his hands — along with a full severance for the wrongful termination and the slander of the theft accusation, which he had retracted publicly to every person he had repeated it to.

She did not go back to the estate.

She was done with that house and its great cold rooms and had earned the right to be.