“It’s their picture too,” she replied.

They sat together for a few minutes after the boys went to sleep.

Naomi told him about an application she had submitted to lead a district-wide science curriculum project.

It would mean more responsibility, and perhaps a modest salary increase.

“You’d be good at that,” he said.

She looked pleasantly surprised.

“You used to tell me I spent too much time at school.”

“I was wrong about a lot of things.”