Audrey and the cottage

Audrey had not said anything, just nodded and paid the lease. She was looking for just that, an isolated location preferably away from society. Jimmy's mother had noticed Audrey's dark circles, deep and caved in, tired from tears or frustration. She did find it odd that a young women, a bit funny looking, but charming would ever wish to live in the forest, so far from humans and only the wind to accompany her. But Audrey had been determined, so with pity in her voice she had given the Cottage to her with a smaller price, yet when the check came in, Audrey had paid in full. And when she had gone to inquire about it, Audrey had not opened the door. Just stocked herself in and waited for the knocking to go away. It had eventually. She then stood in the window, watching flatly as the mother dragged her four children along to the disciplined father waiting impatiently in the motor car.