My mother-in-law pointed at the door during New Year’s dinner and snapped, **“If you don’t like my rules, get out!”** – Welcome

was pleased in the direct way she was pleased by most things, without false modesty. “I thought it would help,” she said, which was true, and which was the most straightforward possible account of her reasoning.

Daniel looked at her with the full, clear love of a parent for a child who has just shown you something about themselves you had not seen before,continue reading …