Beatrice said wryly, “I can relate to being impatient. It’s one of the traits I’m trying to get rid of.” She’d originally thought that when her life became slower after retirement that her impatience might abate. But now she was thinking the trait was deeply ingrained.
Alice said, “Good for you for trying to be more patient! I wish Flossie had been trying to do the same. She didn’t always treat people the way they should be treated or the way she’d want others to treat her. I listened to Wyatt’s sermon on the Golden Rule lately and was thinking about Flossie the whole time. I wish she’d been in the congregation to hear it, but of course she wasn’t much of a church-goer. One of the people Flossie was especially hard on lately was Trina Wallace.”
“Trina?” Beatrice knew the name but was try
