The Weight of Gold
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Outside, through the tall window beside the door, the topiary spheres were barely visible in the dark, patient and enormous and exactly what they were.
“He sees you,” Vivienne said. It was not a compliment, exactly, and not an approval. It was a finding. The verdict of a fair witness, delivered without ceremony. “That is—” she paused, searching for the word, and Eleanor held very still, because her mother so rarely searched for words, preferring the ones she already had to the risk of reaching for better ones. “That is not nothing,” Vivienne said.
“No,” Eleanor said. “It’s not.”