Keepers Of The House

Lydia Sinclair was just seventeen when she arrived on her husband’s estate in the Andes. Her first day went by in a haze of mosquito bites and heat and a swarm of new faces. The farm workers and visitors saw her swathed in a long dress and with a wide-brimmed hat, and were struck by her likeness to the tall women who had lived in the valley before her time. The children laughed a little at her strangeness and her height, but the older ones recognized in her a vision of the past.