Chapter 56

Mickey said, “Let’s look around upstairs before it gets too dark. We can check out the back porch later.”

They went upstairs and walked through a huge master suite with its own bathroom. One end of the master suite opened out onto a very private screened-in porch. Three smaller bedrooms at the opposite end of the second floor shared a pair of baths. There was also a small room adjacent to the master suite that might once have been a sewing room, or perhaps a nursery. They retraced their steps and went out onto the porch.

“This is sort of like your porch in Norfolk, isn’t it?” Chris said.

“Close enough, and just as private, except for that high-rise apartment building across the water.”

“Yeah, but it’s so far to the left that I doubt anyone could see much, even if they had a telescope.”

“That’s true. Let’s go downstairs.”