“If it were down to me, we would stay here, and things would go on just as they are now. This is the happiest time of my life and I don’t want it to end”.
“You are talking about yourself an awful lot in that last sentence, my dear. I know that you are not a selfish person, but that sentence belies that fact. Are you frightened of going to live in Europe?”
“No, Mae, leastwise not in the same sense as I was fifteen years ago when all the old biddies told me I might be sold into s*x-s*****y! But maybe I am scared that my family will forget me if I stay away too long in the same way that Craig’s family hardly talk to him now”.
“I didn’t know it was like that. How sad for Craig. You have met his family, are they anything like us?”
“They were very nice, but they just seem to have learned not
