Chapter 52

The Families

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They came in the February, which nobody expected.

There were three of them and they came to the archive, at four o'clock, and asked for Miss Hart: a woman of about seventy called Ruth Vane, a man in his fifties called Peter Thorne who ran the garage on the Gloucester road, and a woman of about thirty-five called Amy Hallow, who had a small boy with her and who was Francesca Hallow's niece.