Portrait of Suzette Redwood and grandfathers.

Brindleton Bay 1842.

Painter: Johnathan Scarwood.

Whinkerspark, Brindleton Bay 1842.

Weeks passed and Lord Redwood arranged for a governess for Suzette so that she could improve her piano skills. His relationship with his granddaughter was slowly improving and Clara could not be happier that this was happening.

Lady Redwood did not agree with Lord Redwood’s new way with her granddaughter, to her it seemed to be a lost cause anyway.

She always stood at the threshold of the Drawing room watching and judging from afar. But this time she felt a big fatigue in her whole body together with a headache, so she collapsed on the floor in a faint.

They called the doctor who arrived as quickly as he could, checked on Lady Redwood who was resting on her bed. At this time he needed to speak to the family about her health.

Lord Redwood: Please, Doctor, put an end to our anguish, I ask you to tell us what is wrong with my wife. Will she recover?

Doctor: Lord Redwood, your wife shows the symptoms of scarlet fever, this disease in a woman of Lady Redwood’s age does not leave us many possibilities to act. I will do everything I can to make her discomfort less but there is not much more to do, I am sorry.

The news about Lady Redwood’s health fell like a block of stone on everyone, silence dominated the room with its somber feeling at the thought of possible death looming.

Suzette was very saddened, she thought she would be able to make things right with her grandmother as well as with her grandfather, but it seemed like that might never happen.