Brianna was quiet for a moment. "So what if I saw it? That didn't necessarily mean he was married. He could have been recently divorced," she said. "Daddy will realize that, too, right?" She sounded so afraid.
"That doesn't matter. You should have found that out first. You know as well as I do, better even, that it makes everything more complicated when you take a married man."
"I know that," Brianna said.
"You didn't last night," Mrs. Fennel said.
Brianna was quiet again.
"Anyway, you shouldn't have had him pull up so close and argue where you could be heard and wake Lorelei."
I knew now that they would be talking about me, so I listened even harder.
"I didn't think she would be awake and hear enough to get out of bed. Who could imagine she would fall out of a window?"
"Why did you bring her into the house so quickly?" Mrs. Fennel asked. "She saw your father with him on the stairway."
