Clause 27. Should the Agreement be terminated early by the Borrower, or the Husband be removed from the household against his will, all sums due under it shall fall due within twenty-four hours.Lantern Capital, Exclusive AgreementThe Brightmoor Herald landed on the breakfast table like a slap.CALLOWAY SHIPPING LINKED TO POISONING PROBE. Below it, a photo of the estate gates, taken from the road. Below that, three paragraphs of careful, poisonous language about unnamed sources and financial irregularities and a creditor under scrutiny.Madam Calloway read it standing up. Then she read it again. Then her hand began to shake so badly that the paper rattled."The board will see this," she said. "The bank will see this. Our name. Forty years, and it's in the gutter.""Mother, sit down," Elena said."Don't you tell me to sit!" She whirled, eyes wild. "Do you know what people are saying? That this family is rotten. That we poisoned our own patriarch." Her voice broke on the last word, and