CHAPTER 20VISITORS
NAOMI
Dr. and Mrs. DiNovi were at the hospital within minutes of Damon’s morning phone call, and came around the edge of the doorway like a sunrise, grinning so widely that even Helen’s dignity threatened to dissipate in the glow. They bent to hug me, shook Dad’s hand heartily, expressed regrets at having missed Jonathan and my mother—regret that would have been considerably less sincere had they ever met my mother—and dragged Damon off to show them the baby. Shortly thereafter, Dad went to see what had delayed Mom and Jonathan’s return from the cafeteria, and I had just enough time to get nervous about my solitary, unguarded state when Lihua arrived.
She didn’t bother with the doorway, but used the shadow of Jonathan’s bed, and bowed to me in the Chinese fashion. Her
