My father moved the whiskey an inch to the left and did not drink.

“You gave him a company,” he said.

“You did not give him a childhood, so stop paying for one.”

“The flight attendant called me Madam this morning.

Twice.

She straightened her collar before she said it.”

“Evelyn has been on that crew since your mother was alive,” he said.

“The gold pin on her collar is the holding company emblem.