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Autumn 1946, Hylewood, Canada
The children are in good health. Roseline is still boarding in Toronto. Mama has been covering her tuition since Papaâs passing. But to be perfectly honest, given her rather poor results, I cannot help wondering whether Branksome Hall has lost some of its prestige since my own school days. When I was a girl, our teachers would never have allowed us to perform so poorly. Lazy pupils would have been corrected and set straight long before their shortcomings became irreparable.
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Spring 1947, Hylewood, Canada
Perhaps you will find me a little old-fashioned⊠I have a great deal of trouble addressing someone I have never met informally. I was raised quite strictly - we were never to use familiar terms of address with anyone outside our immediate family. Any breach of that rule would have been considered rather forward, and harshly reprimanded. I sometimes shudder at my husbandâs easy manner of speaking to everyone so informally. Not that I hold it against him - he can do as he pleases, and besides, no one seems to mind. Itâs simply that I could not bring myself to do it myself. With the sole exception of my roomate - she has been the only one, in fact - I addressed all my classmates formally. I still do the same with the women from the wivesâ committee, even after all these years of working together. The only people I address informally are my immediate family: my brother, brothers and sisters-in-law, cousins, nephews, and nieces. I address Mama formally, as I did late Papa, as well as my uncles, aunts, and grandparents - who, in turn, always addressed us informally. So please, donât take it personally.
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Lucien LeBris: Well, hello, Layla! Waiting for the ferry?
Layla Bernard: Good morning, Lucien. Yes, I have a doctorâs appointment.
Lucien LeBris: A doctorâs appointment? What do you need a doctor for when your husband is one?
Layla Bernard: You should know itâs not advisable for a doctor to examine their own family. Their judgment might be clouded, and they could underestimate the seriousness of an illnessâŠ
Layla Bernard: ⊠Besides, Fabien already examined me. He didnât find anything.
Lucien LeBris: I hope itâs nothing serious?
Layla Bernard: I donât know. I hope not. Iâve been having more and more memory problems⊠I need to take some tests to make sure itâs nothing serious like Alzheimerâs disease.
Layla Bernard: Theyâre just routine exams. At my age, itâs unlikely to be that, but Fabien prefers not to take any chances.
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Autumn 1946, Hylewood, Canada
I share your feelings of loneliness concerning my own brother. Mine wasted no time selling Papaâs factory to buy a tungsten mine in the Northwest Territories. Heâs just moved to Whitehorse with his wife and daughters. At her age, Mama couldnât be left alone in her big house⊠Sheâs living with us now.
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Autumn 1946, Hylewood, Canada
Having the house full again keeps me particularly busy, all the more since my brother-in-law is constantly around the house ever since Lucienâs return. There is always something to do, to tidy, to prepare. Mother has been an invaluable help. She used to look after my brotherâs daughters, and now she spends most of her time with Prosper. She cannot comprehend why neither my sister-in-law nor I have hired a nurse. My mother and her sister were raised by a nurse; my brothers and I had a nanny. I must confess that I have no desire to endure the childish rivalries that several women in my wivesâ committee have confided to me about their own nurses.
I shall end this letter here. Lucien sends his warm regards and asks me to tell you that he was particularly pleased by the view on the postcard you sent him.
Please let me know if, by any chance, you manage to locate Lucienâs postcards somewhere among your stuff. There is no need to scan them; I'd simply like to know where they are. They were sent to Saint-Rostand starting in the mid-1940s, and if they were not thrown away, they should still be there.
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Agathon LeBris: I do not know what you have been drinking, Sonia, but what you are saying makes no sense. The sanatorium is hiding a story about a shell company, perhaps organ trafficking, but certainly not magic.
Lucien LeBris: Wait, Agathon⊠Something happened to me during the war.
Agathon LeBris: Oh, come now. Do not tell me you met a dragon or some witch in the middle of the Australian desert?
Lucien LeBris: Not a dragon, no⊠Wait, let me tell you.
Agathon LeBris: âŠ
Lucien LeBris: You believe me, don't you?
Agathon LeBris: ⊠I don't know. The man who attacked you may simply have been driven mad by the war. Father was not in his right mind when he returned either.
Lucien LeBris: It was something else. The guy who killed him - Morgenstern - had something to do with his condition.
Agathon LeBris: If he was the one piloting the plane during the crash that scrambled his mind, that wouldn't be very surprising.
Lucien LeBris: No, Morgenstern himself said something about it before he killed him. He said⊠that he had turned him.
Agathon LeBris: Are you quite certain you heard that correctly?
Lucien LeBris: Yes. I'm sure of it.
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Autumn 1946, Hylewood, Canada
Here is some news from the family. Agathon is doing well - or so it seems, since heâs still going to great lengths to be a nuisance. Would you believe he refuses to give up his room for Mama? He is occupying the first-floor suite, which he hardly needs, seeing as he spends half the week in Kingston where he rents an apartment. I cannot fathom why he does not just move there for good.
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Agathon LeBris: IrĂšne.
IrĂšne LeBris: Agathon.
IrĂšne LeBris: So, I hear itâs âthe big dayâ⊠Poor girl. I do hope she wonât be foolish enough to say yes.
Agathon LeBris: Iâd love to linger and distract you from your dreary life, my delightful sister-in-law, but sadly for you, Iâm in a hurry.
IrĂšne LeBris: Youâre as insufferable as ever.
Agathon LeBris: The feeling is entirely mutual.
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Autumn 1946, Hylewood, Canada
Of course, not all the tourists are unpleasant. Some are actually quite nice - mindful about noise at night, taking the time to get to know the neighbours even if theyâre only here for a week. One couple even gave us the remains of a roasted boar when they left in early September, since they couldnât take it back with them.
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Lucien LeBris: So? Big day today?
Agathon LeBris: Iâve no idea what youâre talking aboutâŠ
Lucien LeBris: I suppose tonight has nothing to do with the ring I saw lying on your dresser.
Agathon LeBris: I havenât the faintest idea what youâre implying. But - if your theory were true, which I neither confirm nor deny - Iâd need to get ready.
Agathon LeBris: Anyway, Iâll leave you to it. Iâve things to do.
Lucien LeBris: Mh-hm.
Agathon LeBris: Tell me - are you smoking two cigarettes at once? Your addictionâs really getting worseâŠ
Lucien LeBris: (sighs) Donât get me startedâŠ
My father passed away in March. He had suffered from high blood pressure for years but refused to follow the doctorsâ advice⊠He used to say heâd rather die now than give up red meat, which horrified my mother. In the end, his heart gave out. He wasnât that old - not yet sixty⊠We buried him in the Hylewood cemetery on a rainy Thursday. Many of his colleagues and a few workers attended. My mother has taken his death very hard and hasnât left her bed since. My sister-in-law and I did everything we could to spare her the burden of preparing the funeral dinner that took place after the burial, so all she had to do was make an appearance. We did a fine job, as the guests seemed satisfied when they left.