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"No," I told Ada the relief that flickered briefly across his face "We didn’t"

CHAPTER 18

The next , I put on a faded black dress and went downstairs to wait for Ivy

"Going somewhere?" Bodie asked randson who goes to Hardwicke" As far as excuses went, that was a fli the truth, given that I didn’t have much in the way of friends at Hardwicke

Bodie raised an eyebrow at randfather of a friend of a friend," Bodie reiterated

I shrugged and headed for the car "It feels like the right thing to do" I wasn’t talking about my tenuous connection to Henry Marquette, and we both knew it

Maybe Adaht Maybe Ivy needed o to a funeral alone

"Theodore Marquette served this country long and well" President Peter Nolan stood at the podiu voice As he eulogized, Ivy’s hand found its way intoBut even that fleeting ht to co about our parents’ funeral My own memories of it were fuzzy

I remember it was su a sea of black I re food I re sick all over the floor I reainst her chest

"Most of us go through the day unaware of the impact we have on each other, the mark we leave on this world--but not Theo He felt that responsibility, on the bench and in his daily life, to leave this world a better place than he’d found it It sounds pat to say that he was a good man, a wise oing to say it anyway He was a good man" The president’s voice reached every corner of the chapel "He was a wise ht onto the casket, which had been wrapped in an Ahout the country in Justice Marquette’s honor

"Theodore Marquette was a husband who’d buried his wife" The president’s voice rolled over y, its tone said trust me, listen to hter who never gave in to grief, to opposition, to the days and the nights and the ame of pool I know fro ‘Happy Birthday’ was at the top of his lungs"

There was a scattering of chuckles

"Theo was a proud grandfather, a devoted civil servant" The president paused and lowered his head "He left this world a better place than he’d found it"

There were other speakers, hymns, prayers

I remember it was summer My dress was blue