Caleb had learned that regret was useful only when it eventually became action.
Nathaniel had learned that responsibility could not rewrite yesterday, but it could influence what happened tomorrow.
And Ruby had learned that adults were far less certain about everything than they pretended.
She opened her mystery notebook.
On the first page she had written:
THE CASE OF THE BILLIONAIRE’S WALLET
Below it she now added:
Solved. Mostly.
Then she turned to a blank page.
Mr. Harris glanced over.
“What are you writing?”
Ruby thought for a moment.
“The important part.”
“And what’s that?”
She wrote slowly.
Grandma Eleanor never got to see what happened to the building. But that didn’t mean what she did was wasted.
Mr. Harris read it.
“That’s pretty good.”
Ruby added another sentence.
Sometimes a good choice waits years before somebody finds it.
Mr. Harris lowered his crossword.
“That’s even better.”
