The Rhythm of Our Feelings novel · Chapter 13 of 24
Chapter 13: Ask Me Again
Philippa did not blink.
"Miss Maddox asked a question in a hallway," she said. "That is the whole of your case."
"It is the whole of mine," I said. "It is not the whole of yours."
"Take it to the board, then. You will find them tired of this family."
Wallace picked his phone off the blotter.
"I will call the board when I have more than a memory of a hallway," he said.
It was the first time I had heard him speak to her without asking permission.
Philippa shrugged one shoulder.
"Miss Rennard," she said. "Do take your shoe. It proves nothing, and it clutters my desk."
Sutton folded the grey silk over the cut shoe with both hands.
She slid the little square of yellow paper under the fold.
She did not say a word to Philippa on the way out.
That night the house was quiet after a fight with no winner.
My mother and Wallace had shut themselves in the study, and I could hear her voice through the door, low and steady, and his answering it.
I went down to the basement because I did not know where else to go.
Sutton was already there, barefoot, in a black leotard with her hair knotted high.
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