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“I... What did you say your surname was?” she asked in a choked voice.

“Hopkins,” Will replied. The girl’s face went deathly white.

She pulled her satchel up onto her lap and started sorting through her things. Finally she pulled out a paper and handed it to him. It was the ad his mother had created to find him a housekeeper. The ad Miss Stewart had answered. But did that mean... No, it couldn’t be. The woman in front of him, who looked as if she might give in to tears at any moment, couldn’t be Abigail Stewart.

“You’re...you’re Miss Stewart?” Will said incredulously.

Tommy poked his brother. “She’s our new house?”

“Housekeeper,” Willy hissed.

She straightened her back and tilted her chin up to look the boys’ father straight in the eye. “Yes.”

Any answer Will might have given was interrupted by Tommy’s response. Throwing his arms around the woman’s waist, he squeezed tight while yelling out, “You’re our Auntie House!”