“That’s not fair,” Logan said.

“No,” Paige said.

“It’s not.”

She went back in.

He stood out there on his own for about a minute, and I stood four feet away on the other side of a wall, and neither of us knew the other was there.

At about twenty past eight I heard two women come out onto the landing, and I recognized both voices inside four words.

“—only saying that he deserves his father every day,” Gertrude was saying.