I don’t need a fancy dress anyway.”

“I’m doing the very best I can here,” Rory said, letting out another slow, dramatic sigh into the phone.

“Times are hard all over the county right now.

I’ll see if I can scrape up twenty bucks for pizza next weekend, all right?”

“Okay,” Sadie whispered at the screen.

“Love you.”

“Yeah.

Talk to you later.”