"Can you keep your voice down? There have been a lot of deaths around here lately and it caused a high demand for coffin. That’s why coffins were a little scarce.!"

"’You are just making up unnecessary excuses!" Bertha put her hands on her hips, she was almost spitting as she spoke. "You're supposed to prepare the coffin in advance. Don't you know that?"

The man was Samuel Andrews, Stella's uncle and the only son in the Andrews family.

"Mom died suddenly. Are you ...