Chapter 15
He looked awfully peeved,” Marla whispered under her breath. “Didn’t somebody famous say ‘greed is good’?”
“I thought you were asleep.”
“I was concentrating.”
A loud “Ssh!” erupted from behind us. We turned to frown at the matron, but she had slid down the pew to make room for Tom, who now held his finger to his lips. Marla and I both burst into giggles, which in turn did make the matron glower.
“Mom!” Arch whispered loudly from across the nave. “Grow up!”
Sensing he was losing his audience, Father Pete launched into what he promised was a concluding thought about greed being the opposite of generosity. “Acting in self-interest is diametrically opposed to acting for others,” he said slowly, “and I hope you will all bear that uppermost in your minds …” He paused. The congre
