The Mare

Paul

Ginger just said, “Oh, I know where she got that. In this movie I saw with her, the character is homeschooled. She asked what it meant and I told her. I guess she liked the idea.”

She insisted she said nothing to make Velvet think she was coming to live with us, that the girl was just “experimenting with scenarios in her head.” She said she would speak with her — God knows if she did.

And then the girl turned twelve and Ginger took her shopping. Velvet came back to the house with all these bright bags, but she had to catch the train and I never saw what “we” had bought her. I heard about it later, though. From Edie, not Ginger.