My Mother-in-Law Left a Blue Notebook in Our Hallway Closet—After My Son Was Born, I Finally Learned What She Had Been Recording Inside It

the boy

or:

possible Vance heir issue

Mark’s surname was Miller, not Vance, but Eleanor cared deeply about her own family’s assets and status.

Thomas would never know himself first as an heir problem.

He was a baby.

That was enough.

PART 35 — THE INHERITANCE MOTIVE

The notebook clarified something.

Eleanor’s obsession was not only sexual morality.