“I have been waiting for you to come to apologize to me,” Patience observed. I immediately opened my mouth to do so, but she irritably waved me to silence. “But, in discussing it with Lacey tonight, I found I had already forgiven you. Boys, I decided, simply have a given amount of rudeness they must express. I decided you meant nothing by it, hence you do not need to apologize.” “But I am sorry,” I protested. “I just couldn’t decide how to say—” “It’s too late to apologize now, I’ve forgiven you,”
