Chapter Eight
Llandry was learning that when two stubborn old men were placed into the same room together, their individual stubbornness not only doubled but increased tenfold. On the topic of any degree of reconciliation, they were both wholly intractable. At last, dejected, Llandry fled their mutual chill of manner and took refuge in the garden behind Rheas’s house.
Inevitably, Pensould followed her.
‘You see, Minchu,’ he said, sitting on the grass at her feet, ‘where one has been wronged, one cannot forgive. Your father understands this. Where one has wronged, one cannot likewise forgive. Your grandfather understands this also. Only you and the Mags expect differently.’
‘Mags, Pensould, not the Mags. If we think it possible, why shouldn’t they?’
‘It is because you are female.’
Lla
