The inauguration ceremony of the paintings was a very personal and emotional event for the Merchant family. Their hearts swelled with pride and their eyes were damp.
Even an unemotional Milan's heart fluttered with joy and love for his mother. However, unlike Alyse, he did not let it affect his demeanour and he stood like a solid rock beside his emotional father.
Mr Merchant was particularly touched by one of the paintings depicting a family of doves. He remembered his wife mentioning them as a pair of doves who were rearing pigeons.
Even though he could never understand the context of the analogy of the doves and the pigeons, he saw in them his own little family. She had beautifully depicted their love, their individual ambitions and their relation with the environment around them.
