"We loved him," she said.
"Well, it's all very sad, very sad. Who was his accomplice, do you know?"
"Someone in America."
"Yes, so George Peck told me. But who would that be? Who went to America from Clare?"
"The Willett family went to Canada. And they had daughters. It was a woman, you know. Perhaps they finished up in the States."
"If it was a woman I'll eat my hat."
"I feel that way too."
"Do you? Good girl. You're an admirably intelligent woman, Bee. Nice-looking, too. What are we going to do about the boy? For the future, I mean."
"We don't know yet if he has a future," she said.