The short story under consideration is devoted to a mother who just passed away and her family members finding out “secrets” about their deceased mother. She had died from a painless death in her bed looking like she had got herself ready before dying. She laid there looking calm and peaceful as her son and daughter were desperate about her death. Her children decided to read the letters their mother had wrote which were kept in her drawer. At first they enjoyed the letters and thought they should bury them with her until the daughter opened a letter written by a man named ‘Henry’, who was not their father. The letter from this man was a confession in love. When they finished reading the letter they got up and left their deceased mother on her bed in the darkened room.