A widowed businessman returns early to his quiet mansion, ready to confront the housekeeper, but what he sees changes everything

affecting the girls — was clearly untenable. He needed someone reliable, someone present, someone who could manage the household with enough competence that he did not have to think about it.

The agency had sent him three candidates. He had interviewed all three on a Saturday morning with the girls present, and he had chosen Lila because she was the continue reading …