“I Didn’t Come Rushing to New York to Visit You in the Ho...

“I didn’t come rushing to New York to visit you in the hospital, Oliver, because I didn’t care.” It was not precisely the answer to the question as posed.  Yet it said it all.   He looked up from The Washington Star, squinting over his half lenses.

“Didn’t care?”

He removed his glasses and balanced them on the Chesterfield’s leather arm.

“I just didn’t care,” she said clearly”

Warren Addler’s The War of the Roses