I went because I wanted to look at her while she said it.

She made me tea. She has plants in the window and they’re doing well, which annoyed me in a way I’m not proud of. She started to apologize and I said, “Don’t do that yet,” and she stopped, which I respected.

I said: “I want you to tell me the sentence you said to my dad. The one about the text not working without the picture.”

She said it.

I said, “Again.”

She said it again. Her voice went at the end of it the second time.