Wylder's Hand Chapter 46 - Debate And Interruption

In which Rachel is troubled by uneasy suspicions concerning Stanley and a certain silent confidant, while Dorcas, newly allied by marriage yet quietly estranged, senses a growing mystery and concealment that shadows her household. The tangled tensions among them play out with restrained but sharp exchanges, as each contends with unspoken truths and mounting distrust beneath the stately calm of their ancestral estate.