“Your sister has qualified for her promotion.

The celebration is paid for, the guests have been invited, and there is no reason to make a routine process into a family concern.”

Linda pushed a place card toward me.

My name was written on it in the same blue ink as Emily’s.

“Help me with these, darling.

We have enough to organize without turning every question into a problem.”

I took the card, but I did not put it with the others.