Finally, the sun came out at Inveraray, and Louise received the joyous news that Sybil had given birth to a healthy baby girl. They were naming her Sybil Evelyn de Vere Beauclerk, after her mother. Louise was ecstatic but wondered why Sybil hadn’t written her. The telegram had come from Helena instead. Worry niggled at the back of Louise’s mind, but her days and evenings were so full that she didn’t have time to analyze why she’d be worried. Within a few days, surely Sybil would write herself. Louise wrote her own note of congratulations and posted it. Soon they’d travel to Kintyre, the home
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