Shore turned back to the portrait and Rafferty could no longer see his face. 'Of course, he had a terrible time in his youth, so it wasn't surprising that he should feel that way. He refused to accept that the subtler forms of Jew-baiting and class hatred to be found in this country couldn't be overcome, if one were strong enough.'
'It seems he was right,' Rafferty murmured. 'Such obstacles didn't stop your father getting rich.'
'My father got rich in spite of his background,' Shore asserted, with a frown, as if Rafferty had just uttered a particularly vile blasphemy. Then he sighed. 'Perhaps, in a funny way it was because of it. His parents died at the hands of the Nazis when he was a teenager. It caused him to be all the more determined to make his mark. With hard work and more hard wo
