Kate could not deny her love of music and playing the organ. The grandness of church organ is the sound made coming through the pipes and reverberating off the stone walls of a chapel or best a cathedral. To Kate's ear playing the ivories requires the kind of space that the music takes on a life of its own. There was no organ in Kate's home for this reason. Caroline was still working hard to be exactly want Kate wanted in a partner, minus discussing it with her. Caroline had the best of taste and assumed this skill carried over in every other part of her life. John's affair was proof positive this was not always the case. The laid plans had gone to rot. Kate was different. Her marriage in mind and heart was the past and dead. Kate was her present and future happiness. Caroline saw their budding relationship as a life preserver. Happiness and genuine love was still a bit frightening to Caroline but she held her bottle by battening down and letting for once, her heart lead the way.
This next task for Caroline was to organize the move to their new home. The Harrogate had sold for over 1.5MIL. Caroline was gobsmacked when the estate agent called with the good news. The house of their choice was well under 500K with more than 250K left over. John would have his 50% in which his mistress Judith could go hog wild and pig crazy with his proceeds. Caroline beckoned Kate to her office via Beverly to break the good thinking something was terribly wrong in the manner that Beverly called her to come to the Headmistresses' office. Kate scurried as fast as was feasible for someone with loathsome fear and anxiety to move. The nerves and anxiety made an appearance as they were on vacation. With a vengeance, only negativity and dread were all she could conjure. Kate entered Caroline's office like a pupil sent to the Headmistresses office for committing an expellable offense.
Caroline looked up from her papers and shined her most dazzling smile and declaring "The house has sold and not for a pence but over a million and a half. That leaves us 50% and the other half to John." She spoke with comfortable authority, knowing her news would delight the love of her life. Kate now wide-eyed, with a look for shocked melting into a toothy smile, then laughter and finally concern. "Caroline, my house is still on the market, I don't know when it will sell." "No matter, we can pay for the house from the proceeds of the Harrogate sale. "Caroline we talked about us owning a home together. " Oh we will!" Caroline explained, "The deed will have both of us listed as owners. I think it would be wise to create a trust fund for our daughter when she arrives. The boys got one each when they were born. When your house sells we could fund our daughter's future like I did for the boys. College tuition is saved for each and ready for Oxford. Now we are going to have worry about Primary school. They're very expensive, you know. We'll have search high and low for a good public school. Any ideas?