Chapter 47

• “You have to understand,” a man said, “we need to tread carefully here. It’s not something we can enter into lightly.”
• He sounded familiar somehow, but I couldn’t quite place it.
• “Why?” a woman asked. “Just do it. Figure out some plan. I’m tired of this. It’s always the same. Always. Do you know what he did last night? He brought home some woman. He plans to have her act as a mother where I can’t. I keep having to lie to him, and I’m tired of it. Do you know how much of a nuisance it was to pay off the doctor to say I was…”