 The story skips more than twenty years later to 1989, and, rather than being a continuation of Maisie’s tale, it is Dan who is narrating.The sense of impending doom turns to suspenseful mystery as Dan reflects back on a tragedy that occurred during the summer of 1967 involving the Mortland family.Lucas is now a celebrated artist planning to show his 1967 portrait, The Sisters Mortland, at a retrospective.