And not just any automobile, but a Winton-same as the Vanderbilts-which is exactly why Charles had gone out and bought the damn thing, along with the even stupider driving goggles that went with it. More than a few students had noted this because what he’d driven her in was still something of a loud and chugging novelty, even for the wealthy Brookhants population: a gas-powered automobile. Cousin Charles had been the one tasked with driving Clara to campus. She’d just been delivered back to cam- pus after a weekend stay at her parents’ house across the water in Newport, a house that they were then readying to close for the season. And we know that Clara took off into that section of woods, onto the orchard path, because several of her classmates watched her do it. We know that the Brookhants fall term had been in session for six weeks. We know that the year was 1902, and the state the tiniest in the nation: Rhode Island.
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