“Let me explain,” I say feebly. “We’ll sit down—” “It says my mother was Jewish. And that my father . . . that he . . .” “She was Jewish,” I say quietly. “And he did.” You’ve gone still now, your eyes wide and unfocused as you attempt to process what I’ve said. “I know it’s hard to hear, Belle, but it’s what happened. Your father had your mother put away. Not because she was sick but because he was ashamed of her. He’d begun making new friends—political friends—and he didn’t want them to know he was married to a Jew.”
yeah, this I'm not surprised by. I'm surprised this might break them though. Belle loved her mother very much, I'd think she'd be happy or you know, not happy, but vindicated to learn the truth, and finally able to turn her back on her father
