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The Mirror

Nora Roberts

The Mirror

Nora Roberts

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The Mirror Part 3 Summary & Analysis

Part 3: “The Living and the Dead”

Part 3, Chapter 21 Summary

Content Warning: This section of the guide features depictions of death by suicide, and physical and emotional abuse.

The calm lasts until Cleo and Sonya decide to convert one of the third-floor rooms into a room for storing and wrapping gifts. Owen and Trey bring up furniture from the rooms downstairs. That night, the usual 3:00 am sounds are far more amplified. Sonya and Trey wake up as a wind blows open the terrace doors. They go out onto the terrace and see present-day Dobbs on the seawall, looking at them triumphantly.

Backing indoors, Trey and Sonya find themselves trapped in changing tableaus: Clover in painful labor, a man in a leather chair, and a couple having sex. Then they see the brides die, one after the other. The house falls quiet. They realize Dobbs made the house show all its memories to frighten them. She must have been enraged at Sonya and Cleo claiming another of the manor’s rooms.

A few days later, Cleo and Sonya head to Boston for Sonya’s presentation to Ryder Sports. Trey takes Yoda and Pye home, and on his way out of the manor, he sees a shadow at one of the windows.

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