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Barbara has finally learned her parents' names. She's spent the last couple years with a driving need to discover her identity for herself, not to wait until the information is handed to her when the terms of the Baron's will are met. And now that she's succeeded ...
"All these years -- all the searching and wondering -- and now she felt nothing. Barbara Arpik -- it was a stranger's name. Not hers. She wanted to weep with frustration. It was supposed to have mattered. She was supposed to feel that she had come home at last. This was supposed to be her triumphant return: a free woman with a name of her own. And ... nothing."
(Sorry, you don't get let in on the second major reveal until you read the book.)
"All these years -- all the searching and wondering -- and now she felt nothing. Barbara Arpik -- it was a stranger's name. Not hers. She wanted to weep with frustration. It was supposed to have mattered. She was supposed to feel that she had come home at last. This was supposed to be her triumphant return: a free woman with a name of her own. And ... nothing."
(Sorry, you don't get let in on the second major reveal until you read the book.)
