“I called her because you were refusing to hear me,” I said.

“I thought perhaps you would hear someone who taught you better.”

“Do you see?” Lucas gestured toward his grandmother.

“She’s trying to humiliate me in my own house.”

Mrs.

Gable set down her fork.

“You are not being humiliated by an elderly woman asking you to behave decently.

You are embarrassed because you understand what you did.”