I Arrived at My Beach House for Peace but Found My Daughter in Law Had Taken It Over

you needed the place to yourself this weekend, I said—”

“You told her enough,” Eleanor said, and the words were not unkind but they were not lenient either.

He stopped. Looked around the room, which was clean and quiet and entirely itself again. Looked at his mother, standing at the sink, drying her hands on the dish towel she had made from an old flour-sack continue reading …