You haven’t listened about it.”

“Gertrude—”

“He’s forty.

He’s been in that marriage for thirteen years and there’s nothing in it.

And she’s never going to be able to give him children, so I don’t know how much longer he’s supposed to—”

“Stop.”

It came out sharp enough that I heard the coat rail rattle.

“You don’t get to talk about her like that in front of me,” Valerie said.