'Do you think Rose is not coming back?'
Macon hadn't expected him to be so direct. 'Oh, well, you know how it is, 'he said. 'She's worried about the boys. They're living on tinned soup or something all the time.'
'Those are not boys, Macon. They're men in their forties.' Macon rubbed his chin.
'I;m afraid she's left me,' Julian said.
'Oh, now, you can't be sure of that.'
'I care about that sister of yours more than anything in the world, ' Julian said.'And our marriage was working out fine. But that house of hers has become a kind of habit or something, and she just can't break free of it. It's like she can't help herself.' Macon said, ' Why don't you give her a job,Julian?'