Sublime

I also liked it because it allowed me to justify the impulse of tenderness roused in me by Michele’s manner, which has remained candid and ingenuous, even now that he’s almost fifty. When he calls me “mamma” I respond in a tone that’s severe yet loving, the same I used with Riccardo when he was a child. But now I see that it was a mistake; he was t

collogue.

‘Poor Little Boy’,

Sadie felt a swelling of love and of worry for him—what was the difference in the end?

“He did everything he could except stay.”

insofar as it was possible to love someone so naturally comfortable in three-piece suits, I loved him.

Emeline had always seemed occupied with watching everyone else and trying to be helpful, but she’d stayed on the sidelines, as if it weren’t her turn to live. William had thought the hesitation was part of Emeline—part of her personality—but now it was gone. She seemed fully alive in front of him.

trenchant,