“By the end of January, Katherine was feeling more settled into her new routine. Since Elisabeth was an early riser, she would have breakfast ready when Kat came downstairs. She missed her long morning walk, so she had begun to go to yoga with Lucy twice a week. Yoga was new to her, and so was the experience of having a regular commitment with a  girlfriend now that James no longer controlled her agenda.”
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“This rocky section of shore was all cliffs. And where there were cliffs there were usually caves. Indeed, in the moonlight, I noticed many openings and was intrigued. The locals talked of cave walls covered with ancient drawings, rooms deep in the rocks that were used in older times as retreats, temples and burial grounds. I’d explored several caves, mostly on the other side of the island of at Plemont Bay. They were majestic and mysterious, but I had yet to stumble upon a cavern I could be sure had any mystical significance.”
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“The trips around the country without spouses in tow continued. Jeanne-Marie and Grayson dropped the teenagers in Aix with enough money for lunch or ice cream before setting off to explore the cliff villages or to Grasse for the parfumerie or to Monaco to try their luck at the casinos.
When I had time, usually in the evenings after Chantal had left, I wondered what happened to my family. What happened to my plans to gather everyone close, to share the beauty of a new country together?”
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