It wasn't Colette that spurred Jessica to speak further, but Chase.
She reached for a pack of cigarettes,
lighting one quickly before setting everything back down on the side table again. Basil may have had his fathers looks, but he had his mother's mannerisms. And bad habits too.
"I can tell you i'd bet pound sterling that he's in a medical facility. Which one or where, I don't know. All I know is that the man had hosts of medical doctors in here trying to get him better and not a single one could fix the child. The discussion was had about sending him away. I told him I wouldn't allow it, so instead we sent him to Oxford, which he cocked up royally. Then your university. And when he eventually made too much of a scene, wherever he is now."