Elly Campbell didn't take Sophia Green's words, her lips tugged into a smirk that seemed intentionally designed to embarrass the other woman.
And Sophia Green seemed to realize just then the inappropriateness of her own behavior and quickly smiled apologetically as she explained,
"I am very sorry, you may not know, but my stepmother is President Jones's mother, so nominally, I should call him 'brother.'"
This explanation disgusted Elly Campbell even more than Sophia's initial address of "Brother Adam."
Elly looked at Sophia with a smile that seemed to acknowledge her statement, nodded and said,
"I truly wasn't aware of when Mrs. Green became my mother-in-law. After all, my husband Adam told me his mother died when he was six."
Watching Sophia Green's facial expression shift subtly, Elly Campbell set down the coffee she had been holding, and continued in an unhurried tone,
