“Okay,” she said.

“Then I’ll tell you what I think, and you don’t get to fix it.

“I think she means it about being tired.

I think she’s sixty and something’s gone out of her — you didn’t see her at the shop this spring, Whit, she sat down twice during a fitting.

And I think she is also absolutely doing what she has always done, which is buy a person with a thing.” Chelsea pulled her knees up.

“Both.