“He doesn't like change, for one thing. But I don't know anything about politics. Suzette says—”
“Will he try to keep him from being elected?”
“He won't support him. Of course I hardly think he would oppose him. I really don't understand about those things.”
“You mean you don't understand him. Well, I do, mother. He has run everything, including father, for so long—”
“Lily!”
“I must, mother. Why, out at the camp—” She checked herself. “All the papers say the city is badly governed, and that he is responsible. And now he is going to fight his own son! The more I think about it, the more I understand about Aunt Elinor. Mother, where do they live?”
Grace looked apprehensively toward the door. “You are not allowed to visit her.”
“You do.”
“That's different. And I only go once or twice a year.”
“Just because she married a poor man, a man whose father—”