A Family Tradition KeptChapter 2
Mary and Helen were being home schooled by my wife, so it had mostly escaped my notice that the long summer school vacation was upon us. The only difference I experienced was that there was less traffic – fewer cars – on the roads during the ‘rush hour’, when it seemed everybody was trying to get to or from work without the extra burden of parents driving their children to and from school. So it was something of a surprise when the doorbell rang one afternoon and we discovered my sister,...