Jem and I exchanged glances. “Jem’s growing up now and you are too,” she said to me.
“We decided that it would be best for you to have some feminine influence.
It won’t be many years, Jean Louise, before you become interested in clothes and boys—”
I could have made several answers to this: Cal’s a girl, it would be many years before I would be interested in boys,
I would never be interested in clothes… but I kept quiet.
“What about Uncle Jimmy?” asked Jem. “Is he coming, too?” “Oh no, he’s staying at the Landing. He’ll keep the place going.”
The moment I said, “Won’t you miss him?” I realized that this was not a tactful question.
Uncle Jimmy present or Uncle Jimmy absent made not much difference, he never said anything.
Aunt Alexandra ignored my question. I could think of nothing else to say to her.
In fact I could never think of anything to say to her, and I sat thinking of past painful conversations between us:
How are you, Jean Louise? Fine, thank you ma’am, how are you? Very well, thank you, what have you been doing with yourself? Nothing.
Don’t you do anything? Nome. Certainly you have friends? Yessum. Well what do you all do? Nothing.
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