Macon avoided answering this directly, and on the way home with Rose he decided that trouble with Julian was that he had no children. People who had no children, Macon felt, had never truly grown up. They weren’t quite…real.
Unexpectedly, the thought of Muriel, lying with a broken arm and a German guard dog standing over her, its teeth at her throat. But she didn’t give in. ‘Absolutely not, ’ she said.