Chapter 26 Don't Insinuate That Again

• "Well, it seems like everyone is here," Marius was the last to enter the room where the rest of his family was gathered - his two sisters, his brother, his mother, and of course, the person who had brought them all together, his father. "It's almost like Christmas."
• "Do you want some coffee, something to eat, son?" Camille, Marius' mother, asked, approaching to kiss her son's cheek, ignoring his sarcastic comment. To her, the most exciting thing was having all her children at home at the same time, something that only happened on Christmas or isolated celebrations.
• "A coffee will be fine, Mother. I ate on the plane, I'm not hungry," Marius assured sweetly, returning his mother's kiss and then sitting in the armchair to meet his father's gaze, the family patriarch, Phillip Lorraine. "And now that we're all here, what's going on?"