lorraine had suffered a second heart attack-this one fatal-in the early spring of 1976 , and after her mother had been buried away in homeland , polly ( who had by then attained a genuine air of mystery , as far as the ladies of the town were concerned ) had left again gone for good this time had been the general consensus , and when the last remaining chalmers , old aunt evvie , died in 1981 and polly did not attend the funeral , the consensus seemed a proven fact .