"No," I said, laughing.
"That didn't come out right. It's just that he's a little bit older... okay; he's quite a bit older than us so I never looked at him that way. But tonight when I saw the light in my mother's eyes I realized that he's a really, exceptionally good-looking man. He's also intelligent and worldly. He's wealthy and he can cook!"
She made a face and said, "How much older?" I shrugged.
"Maybe early forties." Liz is almost thirty.
She has sworn she would stay at twenty-nine forever, but thirty will be upon her in a month. She looked like she was considering it and she said, "That's not so bad. Your mother was here?" I curled my lip.
“Yes, checking out the inventory under the guise of seeing her grandson."
"What did she say about the baby?"
"That
