Dearest Diary, Patricia still has yet to come home… Mother insists she ran off to search for wildflowers again… But I know that’s not true. It was that man, that thing grandmother keeps ranting on 

about. I do not think she’s mad. I have seen the man myself, he 

watches us as we play. Patty went to him, I just know it! If only mother would listen! I wonder when she’ll come home…; ~Rose