‘It’s Tooty,’ the A.D.A. said. He did a pause with his eyes closed and then smiled, still with his eyes closed. ‘It is, rather, me, and my enmeshment-issues with Tooty’s… condition.’
This resolution to the long-open Gately/ADA conflict is also surprisingly tender. (But once again, it reinforces the expectation that we're going to get a closed end to every thread open so far, and that just isn't so)
