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Meg called again, with the business end of her voice: “Girls!”

“Mama says you’re in trouble,” Ahouse”

“And we don’t even have a dog!” Alice croith laughter

“Girls!” That voice brooked no nonsense

They ran from my arms

Chapter 11

I WILL NEVER FORGET the rest of that evening, not a moment of it Not a detail has been lost on me

“You and I are living in two different es, Ben It’s the truth, a sad truth I’ll ad

I was flabbergasted by this announce in the parlor on the uncoiven us as a wedding gift We had just finished an aard supper

“Two different ”

“I meant it to be, Ben When I was at Radcliffe and you were at Harvard I used to look at you and think, Now, this is the man I could always be with I honestly believed that So I waited for you while you went to law school All the ti away at my father’s house Then I waited soht in that war that none of us understood”

“Meg, I’m sorry It was a war”

“But I’!” She twirled around, her aresture, in those few seconds, I realized the co Our house was not the one on Dupont Circle that Meg deserved, but a s side of Capitol Hill Cracks were visible in our plaster walls The piano had broken keys The roof leaked

Through soft sobs Meg continued, “I’m not a selfish woman I admire the cases you take, really I do I want the poor people and the colored people to be helped But I also want so?”

She wasn’t wrong Maybe I had let her down by worrying too h about her expectations and the life she believed she was getting when she married me