He is not a good man and I am not about to rehabilitate him. He kept it from Rina for four days and he would have kept it from her for four years.
But he did one thing in that room that I did not.
When my mother said she's never finished anything that mattered, he was the one who stood up.
He did not do it for me. He did it because he had worked out, in about two seconds, that the woman being laughed at outranked everything in his professional life.
It was self-preservation and it was also the only time in nine years that anybody has told my mother to stop in front of witnesses, and it was him, and he was terrified while he did it.
And my father, who has been one line in this and who is the one I cannot work out.
He studied his drink. His glass hit the floor. That is all he does in the entire account and it is all he did in the room.
