As you grew up, when you were grown, totally unknown to yourself, you confused your father with God. You never saw him as a man with a man’s heart, and a man’s failings—I’ll grant you it may have been hard to see, he makes so few mistakes, but he makes ’em like all of us. You were an emotional cripple, leaning on him, getting the answers from him, assuming that your answers would always be his answers.” She listened to the figure on the sofa. “When you happened along and saw him doing something that seemed to you to be the very antithesis of his conscience—your conscience—you literally could
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