What I said was:

“No.”

And then, because she did not move, I said the rest of it, and this is the part I have had to live with.

I said: “You don’t get to do this because you feel bad.

“You want to feel better and this is the cheapest way to do it, and the bill comes to me and to five kids who’ve finally stopped asking about you.

Odile stopped asking in June.