“These people are cold, Penelope. That’s what I’m trying to tell you. They think a neighborhood is only about what you can buy—fancy coffee, flowers on the table, a big old house. It’s all just stuff to them, stuff they want, stuff they think they deserve because they can afford it. A neighborhood means more than that. It’s about the people.” Penelope said she wanted to focus on Ralph getting better and not worse. They didn’t need to worry about the house. She didn’t say she had no desire to inherit the house on Halsey Street. To live there would be to go backward, into a life she hadn’t
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