Ines has said she wants to meet her.

And Odile said, “Bea’s coming.

I talked to her Sunday.”

That stopped me for a second, and I let it go past, and I should not have.

Then she said: “And they’re adults, all of them except Willa, and they’ve all been asked, and four of six are fine with it.”

“Four of six.”

“Teddy thinks it’s a bad idea.

Bea won’t say.