“No.”
Trevor looked at him.
“You said she was out.”
Arthur dismissed it.
“Successful people do not surrender authority when they have earned it.”
Trevor answered:
“Maybe she was trying not to use it.”
Arthur did not like that.
Later Trevor came to my kitchen.
Old family photograph in his hands.
“Dad thinks your recusal means he got what he wanted.”
“Does he?”
“I think he wants to.”
We talked about driving lessons.
Trash cans.
Stop signs.
ROTC.
Then the memory that had never left him.