I had a camera and a lab report and a sample and a receipt, and I was not going to spend them on a shouting match in a kitchen.
I needed everything in place first.
Chapter 9 — Never From Grandma
I drove Elspeth to school myself that morning, and in the car I told her, as steadily as I could, that she was never to accept any food or drink from her grandmother unless I was standing right there beside her.
“Mommy,” she said, and her eyes filled, “is Grandma trying to poison you?”
I have thought a great deal about how to answer a question like that from an eight-year-old, and there is no good way.