Chapter 21
- And he’s right. I know he’s right. But she’s the only one I have. I don’t want to tell him that, but I think he probably knows. He looks like henowsknowswsof things. He’s a proper man. A serious man. A man who knows his way around the world.
- “It’s my birthday,” I say. “My eighteenth. Yesterday. I didn’t even want to go out.”
- “Eighteenth?” There’s a surprise in his voice. I hear that surprise from people all the time.