“Yes, that’s all. Tell me, Addie, tell me honestly: do people, as far as you know, still ... talk about us ... as much as they did?”
“I don’t know, Dad. I don’t bother about ‘people.’ I just go to school, you see. But I think....”
“Do they talk about Mamma?”
“No.”
“Not at all?”
“I never hear anything.”
“About me?”
“Yes.”
“They talk about me?”
“Yes, they talk about you, Dad.”