Dad keeps it because his entire childhood is in it and he cannot make himself sell it, and I took Lorna there in the June because I wanted to show her where I used to do my homework.She looked at it once and decided my family had nothing.
And then Lorna said: she thinks she married up. A girl like that won’t fight
people who know how the world works.
And Grayson laughed and said: exactly.
He said: her father’s a nobody. She’ll be grateful for whatever we let her keep.
My eyes went, but not the way they had been going all day.
I had spent two years loving a man who had been studying me like an investment.
I had sat through that woman’s little comments at family dinners — about my job, about my shoes, about whether I would want to keep working — and listened to him tell me afterwards, in the car, to be patient, because she didn’t mean anything by it.
