Three days later a woman named Helen Morris called Caroline’s office.

She had been Eleanor’s personal assistant for nearly twenty years and had recently moved to Vermont.

She had heard there was a dispute involving the Westchester house.

Helen remembered the day Grant signed the occupancy agreement.

Eleanor had invited him to her library.

She asked Helen to prepare two copies and witness the signatures.

“He didn’t like the language,” Helen told us over a video call.

“He wanted the option to buy the house for a nominal amount later.