Chapters 26-29 Summary

Julia discovers that the letter Little Lloyd has been keeping safe is a new will that Wesley Lloyd wrote the night he passed away, leaving everything to his son. Julia is devastated, not just because she will lose the estate, but because her husband thought so little of her after forty-four years of marriage. Unsure of what to do, Julia weighs her options; should she divulge the truth about the will, or pretend it never existed and set up some sort of trust for Little Lloyd and his mother?

Lillian notices that Julia is not herself, and asks what is wrong. Unable to tell even her friend of so many years the horrible truth, Julia decides to go see Sam, and does so, with the letter pinned inside her dress, so that no one will find it in the house. At...