Chapter 27

     Alice had learned a lot about her mother's family, especially her grandmother, during the time she had found that old notebook again. Margaret still seemed confused. The children noticed their mother's change of mood. Their mother no longer laughed and was always thinking and didn't pay attention to the children like before. In fact, those days sadness had surrounded the atmosphere of that house; the children were all cornered and sad; as if something bad had happened or was happening.
Alice went to her room and started reading another part of the notebook again: I can't believe Emily left here today. She suffered a lot but now she is very calm and beautiful asleep like a beautiful angel. I can't believe Emily left me alone, she died. I can't believe why my daughter Emily had to get typhus? Why did my daughter have to die? Emily is not dead at all. Alice was shocked and read this sentence with more sensitivity and surprise than before and then said in surprise: "What does that mean? This is impossible. How is it possible that my mother died at twelve years old?"
A few pages later of the notebook were torn off, finally in the next pages it was written like this: Finally we came back home again. This trip was necessary for Emily but she is still not well but anyway Emily is healthy and well and of course a little bad-tempered with me; I am very happy about this.
   Alice thought to herself: "I don't understand if Emily is dead or not? If she is dead, does it mean that Emily was not my mother? And if she is alive, it seems impossible to me. How can it be possible that someone who has been kidnapped is taken away and returned healthy and well after a few days? I don't believe it."
     In the meantime, Margaret went out of the house every day at a certain time and returned home before sunset with a sadder face than before. Anyway, this behavior had caused Charles and Jack to follow their mother that day and find out where she was going and what she was doing during this time?
   When they understood everything, they returned home sooner than Margaret. When they gathered together. Charles said: "Mother first went into the forest and picked some wild flowers then went to the middle of the plain, sat next to a tombstone and cried for a while. I had never been there before anyway I will follow mother again tomorrow."
   Alice immediately said: "Can I come with you too?"
   Charles said: "Alice why do you want to come with me?"
  Alice, who was lost in thought, said: "I don't know maybe because of a tombstone or maybe just because of a funny feeling."
  Charles said: "Alice do you know something?"
   Alice, who was still deeply lost in thought, said: "I'm not sure about anything yet."