“I’m thinking they might make a family announcement once we get up to Maine.”

The Stotesburys also had a summer cottage at Bar Harbor in Maine

The Vanderbilts between them owned some twenty thousand miles of railway line and most of what rolled along it, and that provided them with more money than they really knew what to do with.

I knew that I should give the painting to either Hobie or Mrs. Barbour, throw myself on their mercy, tell them everything, beg them to help me -

“Would you like to come up to Maine with us this year?”

It took me a moment to realize what he’d asked me.

“No.”