"We live kind of far away."
"You have money. I want you to put me on an airplane and fly me to Kansas."
"I don't have much money anymore. I won't until I sell some paintings; but you are a child. What do you know of any of that? Your concerns are keeping a kite sailing in the breeze. What do you know of finances and paying bills? What do you care about it?"
"I want to go there for Thanksgiving."
"You, my dear, are free to want whatever you please but getting it is another matter."
He fell into his morose ruminations. "What about my father?"
"I wouldn't know anything of him." It was a preposterous claim; and to think that such an easily scaled wall would stop the besiegement was even more absurd. Quickly recognizing her underestimate she fortified the wall. "Some cowboy intellectual who mounted me or I mounted him one time. I don't remember which. I don't remember anything about him."
"Mounted?"
"Sex. Do you understand what sex is?"
"Of course."