TEN
“Won’t you walk with me some of the way?”
“If you wish.”
I’d agreed to walk with Violet a little of the way because I felt sorry for her. Yes, in the middle of all that was going on I had enough sympathy to spend on someone else. This surprised me not a little. I felt sorry for her because whereas I had been dropped off at my door, Violet had not been dropped off at hers, but at mine. Cass had insisted on it.
“If you think I’m going to play bloody taxi to that cow, you are barking up the wrong tree.” As a statement, I wasn’t quite sure how this hung together, but I got the drift, and so did Violet.
“I’d rather walk through s**t then stay in this car a moment longer,” she had said before getting out of the car and slamming the door. I think that spending the whole journey back to t
