A friend arriving for dinner that evening discovered her body. She was 75, the mother of six children, five of them daughters, one of whom (Rachel, the fourth child) committed suicide in 1975 (the event is dealt with, poetically, in Edmond's poem-sequence Wellington Letter).
A guest arriving for dinner that evening found her body. She was 75 years old, a mother of six children, five daughters, and one daughter named Rachel who committed suicide in 1975 (the event is dealt with poetically in Edmond's poem-sequence Wellington Letter).