Both men pondered this, scowling.
Violet mused, “Well, it’s not like either choice is exactly an attractive one. And a new mother in those days wouldn’t have had an easy time walking away from her husband. You could argue that the choice was made for her.”
Sean grunted, his eyes flicking to his mother’s face. Sean and Kirsten almost never talked about their father, who’d disappeared when Kirsten was very young. He’d sent money regularly, and the couple had never divorced, but as far as Lea knew Violet hadn’t seen her husband in a quarter-century. Kirsten and Sean definitely hadn’t.
“Well,” Lea said, trying to break the sudden cooling of the mood, “I think that’s the point of the play. Each of the three main characters is sympathetic. Each of them is awful. It’s one of the reasons I love
