Little Faithful
Beth's fever reaches crisis and the street reveals a ledger nobody had read aloud: broth carried, flowers left, errands run without a performance. The household saint was a public fact hiding in private habits. When the fever breaks at dawn, the relief is the first loud accounting of a life that had been treated as background.
Key Insight
Crisis makes visible what competence conceals. You often learn what someone was holding by watching the room list when they cannot hold it. Do not wait for the crisis to do the inventory.
