The Secret Place
What Nell would be told and by whom.
The cottage, and the fact that her mother had to be out of it, and the four separate questions that raised.
And near the end, Ilse said to me, quietly, “Is there anything else you need to ask?”
And I asked the question I had been carrying for eleven days without knowing it was the question.
“When did you find out he was taking Nell?”
And Antonia said: “September.”