Perhaps, if she could become a more useful member of the community — and if Isabelle trusted her enough — she would be invited inside and could learn everything she needed to set her mind at ease. Ben’s suspicions and her own intuition had intensified into doubt and uncertainty, but she would risk her place here if she were discovered. Indulging her curiosity just wasn’t worth it right now.
The architectural plans were in good shape and proceeded through the council’s planning permission process. If approved, they could begin preliminary work next year, with Rebecca overseeing it all.
She smiled as she considered what that project would mean to her, after too long working on projects designed for utility, not beauty, and destroying nature rather than enhancing it. She was a long way from London now, in every way.
