There was no reconciliation with her people.

All her things had been sent from Fontenoy.

Linen that had been her mother's lay with bags of lavender in an old carved chest from Santo Domingo, and pieces of slender, inlaid furniture stood here and there in the room they called the parlour.

Her candlesticks were upon the mantel, and her harp made the room's chief ornament.

Her fortune, which was fair, had been formally made over to her and to Rand.