There was no way she could go on existing like this indefinitely.
“You would be a lot better off, Miss Honey,” she said, “if you gave up your job and drew unemployment money.”
“I would never do that,” Miss Honey said. “I love teaching.”
“This awful aunt,” Matilda said, “I suppose she is still living in your lovely old house?”
“Very much so,” Miss Honey said. “She's still only about fifty. She'll be around for a long time yet.”
“And do you think your father really meant her to own the house for ever?”
“I'm quite sure he didn't,” Miss Honey said. “Parents will often give a guardian the right to occupy the house for a certain length of time,
but it is nearly always left in trust for the child. It then becomes the child's property when he or she grows up.”
“Then surely it is your house?” Matilda said. “My father's will was never found,” Miss Honey said.
“It looks as though somebody destroyed it.” “No prizes for guessing who,” Matilda said. “No prizes,” Miss Honey said.
“But if there is no will, Miss Honey, then surely the house goes automatically to you. You are the next of kin.”
I know I am,” Miss Honey said. “But my aunt produced a piece of paper supposedly written by my father
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