“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.”