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• Unfortunately, Enid lacked the temperament to manage such a house, and Alfred lacked the neurological wherewithal.
• “Do you live in the city?” Enid said. (You’re not cohabiting with our son, are you?) “And you work in the city, too?” (You are gainfully employed? You’re not from an alien, snobbish, moneyed eastern family?) “Did you grow up here?” (Or do you come from a trans-Appalachian state where people are warmhearted and down-to-earth and unlikely to be Jewis...
• Enid turned her attention to the apartment. Chip, in a late crisis of confidence, had tried to make it presentable.
• might have occurred to Chip that this, too, was a tactless remark, since it implied that his father concurred in his mother’s criticism of the apartment and objected only to her airing of it.
• The idea was tempting; but there were difficulties. One difficulty