kind of voice you hear at country club luncheons.
“Hello, Laurelai.”
“I think we should speak frankly, woman to woman.”
“All right.”
“I understand you’ve had some kind of emotional reaction to the wedding. And that’s understandable. Weddings are very emotional. But what you’ve done is extremely inappropriate.”
“What I’ve done.”
“Throwing the children’s luggage on the ground. Changing the locks. Delia, my daughter called me sobbing from Maui. She’s on her honeymoon. She has nowhere to live now.”
I picked up a bunch of bananas and put it back
