“And what I told myself was that you could handle it. That’s the whole of it, Nora. I told myself my wife is tough and my mother is old and this is the cost of free rent.”

“It wasn’t free,” I said.

“No.”

“Lia was in that house from seven to eleven. That’s the whole part of her life she remembers properly.”

“I know.”

“She heard every single one of those Sundays.”