Tenenbaum closes her eyes briefly, puts a hand across her face. Disappointed. She really suspects that he did not intend to turn over a new leaf at all, and so once again she is disappointed.
But she wronged him horribly, and maybe it's not up to her to decide when she's repaid that debt. Ugh. She'll give him this chance to prove himself, and hope for nothing, so that whatever happens can't be worse. The alternative is giving the child up for lost. Just accepting that he's no more than what she and Suchong and Fontaine fed into him.
He's agreed to try.
"Thank you," she says, sincerely.
Then she turns the radio off, and lights a cigarette, and takes a deep, steadying breath.
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Tenenbaum closes her eyes briefly, puts a hand across her face. Disappointed. She really suspects that he did not intend to turn over a new leaf at all, and so once again she is disappointed.
But she wronged him horribly, and maybe it's not up to her to decide when she's repaid that debt. Ugh. She'll give him this chance to prove himself, and hope for nothing, so that whatever happens can't be worse. The alternative is giving the child up for lost. Just accepting that he's no more than what she and Suchong and Fontaine fed into him.
He's agreed to try.
"Thank you," she says, sincerely.
Then she turns the radio off, and lights a cigarette, and takes a deep, steadying breath.