“Good morning to you too.”
“Scarlett, what have you done?”
I put my coffee down.
“Adele saw that thing,” he said.
“What thing?”
“You know exactly what thing!”
I smiled at the kitchen window.
“Sasha’s first draft?”
“She opened it in the car!”
“Why?”
“Adele saw that thing.”
“Because she sat on it! It was folded with the blank side facing up,” he snapped. “I thought it was just scrap poster board.”
That was unfortunate.
For him.
“Then what happened?”
“What do you think happened?”
I waited.
“I thought it was just scrap poster board.”
He lowered his voice.
“She read it.”
“And?”
There was a pause.
Then a woman’s voice somewhere near him.
“Tell her what you told me.”
Adele.
Harold said something I couldn’t hear.
“Tell her what you told me.”
Adele spoke louder.
“Harold.”
I sat straighter.
“What did he tell you?”
Another silence.
Then Adele answered.