I didn’t care if they had more children. Of course I didn’t care. I was standing in a driveway making the idlest conversation, just as plenty of the people who had asked me when I would get married and when I would have children were making idle conversation. It was nothing but noise, a question for the sake of speaking and not for the sake of inquiry. Some of them cared, but not all of them. I should have realized that earlier.
