Not worth ruining your life for. Can you tell me one really special thing about her? Not something silly like ”She listens to me. ” she look out of hospital windows and imagines how the Martians would see us, Macon wanted to say. But Charles wouldn’t understand that, so he said, ’I’m not so special myself, in case you haven’t noticed. Damaged is the word, probably.’ That’s not true. She’s lucky to have caught you. She’d be lucky to find anyone, in fact. She doesn’t speak proper English, She lives in that awful house, She wears cheap, nasty clothes, She has that sickly little boy who looks like---‘