He read the rest of the chapter.

That was the thing he thought about most, in the beginning — that on the day it all came apart, his daughters had been interrupted in the middle of a chapter.

So he finished the book with them, and then the next one, and then the whole series, out loud, doing voices badly, four nights a week for most of a year.

And on the ninth of October, seven months after Sabina Vance was walked out of that house, Chadworth Prescott came into the kitchen at seven in the morning and found Rosamund making cinnamon bread.