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After leaving her daughter splashing around in the bathtub, Claire Bedwen went back to her daughter's guest. He stayed, as he had been told, in the kitchen, sipping from the cup of tea she had served him. She resisted the urge to kick him out and wash everything after him. Preferably, with bleach.
But he was her daughter's guest, and as much as she resented her father for what had happened, she knew he always placed the family first. In his own way. And he did seem to consider Dana his family; the concern for her state and the patient attention he gave her showed that. The way he allowed her really informal speech, bordering on rude sometimes, was something he'd never allowed to his children. But he had softened up to his granddaughter.
When she came in, he put the cup and the saucer
