eleven children. You have a home. You have everything you need.”
“I have responsibilities. That isn’t the same as having everything I need.”
He frowned.
“Has someone been putting ideas in your head?”
“No.”
“Is this because of something I said?”
I looked at him for a long moment.
He knew.
Perhaps he had expected me to forget the conversation. Perhaps he thought I had been too far away to hear clearly.
But his eyes told me he remembered every word.
“Yes,” I said. “It is partly because of what
