Caroline hummed. “I do plan to visit Wiltspoon to see her sometime soon. I just don’t know if I’ll be kicked out when I get there.”

“And I should visit Mr. Foster too. How is he, by the way?"

Patrick was the longest-living person she had ever met. Back when she lived with her adoptive family in the countryside, the oldest people in town usually lived into their eighties, and few made it to ninety.

Patrick was nearly a hundred years old. What was more, he could walk without support and even