”It was an envelope addressed to me and it was lying under my book in the shirt box with some other envelopes. I picked it up. It had never been opened.” (94)
"Then he walked away from the foot of the stairs toward the kitchen and I closed the door of his room very quietly and went to my room." (95)
”And when I was in my room I shut the door and I took out the envelope from underneath my mattress. I held the letter up to the light...I reasoned that it was addressed to me so it belonged to me so it was OK to open it.” (96)
”I decided that I would wait until Father was out of the house. Then I would go into the cupboard in his bedroom and look at the other letters and see who they were from and what they said.” (99)
I thought Mother Died?
"Then I stopped reading the letter because I felt sick. Mother had not had a heart attack. Mother had not died. Mother had been alive all the time. And Father had lied about this" (112)