Petey loved his granddad, and he tried to be an adult when his grandfather was going to be sent away- “He wasn’t the kind to cry, and besides, he was too old for that, being eleven” – but he was very sad because his grandfather was leaving him and his father wanted to marry a women that Petey didn’t really like- “ Dad would marry that girl, that girl who had kissed him and slobbered over him, saying she’d try to be a good mother to him, and all “.