Chapter 9 Mother

• I don't have the faintest idea what you are talking about," Julia cooed, placing her hand on her chest and gasping for added effect.
• He just smiled at Julia, and she got the impression that perhaps she was a bit out of her element. That he was a man who had played games like this before and won. Julia swallowed as she tasted fear. "The war, what was it like?" She asked to shift the conversation to safer ground.
• "The war," he echoed and scowled. "Is not a nice thing to talk about in the presence of a respectable lady."