She had not raised it with Nora and she had not raised it with me, and when I finally asked her about it she said: “She’ll say it when she means it, and if either of us makes it a project she will say it to please us, and then it will never be true.”

Dr.

Traub agreed with her, and said it more expensively.

She said it in the following April, in a supermarket, with no ceremony at all.

She was about nine feet away at the end of an aisle and she wanted to know whether we could get the cereal with the bad nutritional profile, and what she said, across a supermarket, in a flat voice, was:

“Dad.