Beautiful,” she says with a rush of pleasure as she appraises the effect. “I forget the way to the receiving hall,” he says, clutching a bucket to his chest. Even the skeleton is made of the miscellaneous crap he collected.”, “So . She’s thirty.”, “Ravi is attracted to everyone,” Ivy says, “panoptically.”, Jane doesn’t know that word. “What?” says Jane, flustered. Her aunt had had a funny blue blotch staining the otherwise brown iris in one of her eyes, like a nebula, or a muddy star, with little spikes, spokes. “Mrs. She imagines this house curled up with its back to the sky, shivering around the center it must keep warm, holding its skin against the driving rain. “Quixotic,” she says. . For you, I’m getting up. “I haven’t spent a lot of time in boats. Even when she keeps switching over, intentionally, to a different, insincere version of herself? What would an umbrella look like if it were a mystery? “Okay, but have any of you ever known Giuseppe Panzavecchia to so much as bet on a dog race?” says pearl necklace. How did they ever end up together?”, “They’ve sort of had a thing since they met, maybe two or three years ago,” says Ivy. He moves closer to the main staircase that leads down to the receiving hall, and whimpers again. “Hey,” he says. “I apply for things now and then, but it never comes through, and I’ll be honest, I’m always kind of relieved.”, “What’s the problem? Baby Leo is a real baby. Baby Leo was ill. Do Brits wander around with guns? . He’s soon left behind. In the very moment Jane recognizes it as a wailing child, it turns to a wild sort of laughter and she clenches her teeth. It’s strange to be touched by someone as prickly as Kiran. “Of course not, sweetie. Peering through the window, she can make out the shapes of other boats, big ones, little ones, vaguely, through the downpour, docked in this tiny bay. He seems to be trying to lure her to those stairs. “All this time, I could’ve been stopping bullshit with a cocktail umbrella?”, “It might only work for really small bullshit.”, “Yeah, so, I don’t have a job,” Kiran said again, holding Jane’s eyes briefly, then looking away. Just as her feet touch the hall’s checkerboard floor, Ravi appears at the very top of the stairs. “It’s the house’s nicest feature.”, “Oh,” says Jane, trying to read Kiran’s face. Jane supposes she was expecting someone boring, or bland, or generically rich-looking. The person Ravi has greeted has fine shoulders Jane recognizes from above. When he sees her, he starts down the steps, singing her name, skipping, rushing. We had to lower it to the ground on ropes through a window. “Are you a swimmer?”, “Yeah, when I have time. “My brother makes me want to die,” Kiran says, interrupting. “The red in your brown clashes with its reds. Jane turns up the steps, wondering if maybe he’s returned to the third floor. “Come on,” Kiran says. Waking me up with your indignation when you get here and a sculpture’s not where you’ve left it.”, “Excuse me for being concerned about a missing Brancusi. “I’m looking for Mrs. Vanders,” Jane answers. Her brittle mask is slipping. She removes the tickets one by one, turns them over, and creates her own labels: “Glues,” “Nickel Silver Wire,” “Tying Wire,” “Pins,” “Ferrules,” “Brass Runners,” “Wire Cutters,” “Hinges,” “Tips.” It’s satisfying to drop each item into its proper drawer. Matching staircases climb the walls to left and right, reaching to a second story, then a third. Then he turns and marches away. Hide the grimoires!”, “Let’s take a vote of the house and see who people think is more corruptible, me or you.”, “Oh, hell,” Ravi says. She could impale someone on the ferrule. “That’s a Rembrandt self-portrait. “By car,” she says, not elaborating. “You,” Jane says, scratching his head in a place she suspects he can’t reach, “are perfect.”, “Oh,” says a voice at the door, sounding surprised. “That’s mine.”, “Really? “Are you belittling his work?”, “Oh, Phoebe,” says Colin. Janie, this is my wife, Phoebe.”. But it’s messy. Then Octavian turns and wanders through the north arches into a part of the house Jane hasn’t seen yet. Find Ravi!”. “Ever.”. “Yours?”, “Oh, I’m sorry,” says Phoebe. From the sound of things, you’re avoiding him too.”, “Well,” says Kiran sweetly. “He’s twenty-two, and emotionally he’s about twelve. Ravi continues to climb, his footsteps echoing. It’s scratchy and springy. And he’s not into incest,” Ivy says. “It’s . “Colin found the way to put him in his place without actually being rude. “Your stepmother is still away,” Octavian says sadly, glancing up at the glass ceiling and showing Jane, suddenly, where Kiran gets her snub nose, her broad face. A tiny, self-contained glass room sits near the stairs. Ravi is long gone. Like, is Ivy straight? I’ve been saving up, and I took the SATs last time I was in the city. “I don’t mean to remind you of travel accidents.”. “What is this?” Jane asks, trying not to squeak. And then Aunt Magnolia had died. Before she can say anything, Mrs. Vanders pops her head around the entrance to the bridge again and yells, “Ivy! It’s impossible not to stare. “Thanks,” Jane says again, hoping Ivy won’t ask her what she needs them for. “Did you make that umbrella?” asks Kiran. “Hey, Ravi,” Ivy calls down, her smile big and real. Kiran is British American on her father’s side and British Indian on her mother’s, though her parents are divorced and her father’s now remarried. “How did you sleep?” Jane asks Phoebe abruptly, willing her to say something about nighttime parlays, and guns. Probably while announcing winning Scrabble words and being bold and daring. She’s come home for the spring gala. “I eat in the kitchen.” But she seems to interpret something in Jane’s expression, something Jane herself probably couldn’t articulate, for she takes Jane’s arm above the elbow and squeezes it, then touches one of the empty chairs so Jane will know the right place to sit. Pulling latex gloves from his hands and shoving them into his pockets, he walks across the room toward them both. “There’s no reason to do a provenance study on the Brancusi,” he says coolly. “Watch your language,” says Octavian sharply. “Aunt Magnolia,” Jane had repeated. 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