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him, you handle it, Andrew.”
“I’ll handle it.” He went back to the phone. “Seems downright incestuous,” Joel said.
His sister laughed harshly.
“Nothing important, Mama,” Mary said. “Just—arrangements about the funeral.”
Nothing important! Joel thought. People can only get through these things by being blind at least half the time. No: she was just cutting a corner for Catherine.
“When will the ceremony be held?”
Hannah stifled a laugh and Joel did not. Mary’s face worked curiously with a smile as she told her mother, “We don’t know yet. This was a question of where. Here or LaFollette?”
“I would have supposed that his Home was Knoxville.”
“We think so, too. That’s how it’s settled.”
“That seems as it should be.”
Andrew came in. “Well,” he said, “it was either Ralph or you and I chose you.”
“Oh, Andrew, you must have hurt him.”
“There wasn’t any way out He just wouldn’t take no for an answer