She said: that shabby little flat she took me to was pathetic.
My father is an engineer.
I have never told Lorna what kind. He is chief architect for one of the largest aerospace contractors in this country and he has been for nineteen years.
That shabby little flat belonged to my late grandmother. Two bedrooms, third floor, a kitchen that has not been touched since 1988.
Dad keeps it because his entire childhood is in it and he cannot make himself sell it, and I took Lorna there in the June because I wanted to show her where I used to do my homework.
She looked at it once and decided my family had nothing.
And then Lorna said: she thinks she married up. A girl like that won’t fight people who know how the world works.
And Grayson laughed and said: exactly.
He said: her father’s a nobody. She’ll be grateful for whatever we let her keep.
