Ezra made a face, but didn't comment on her mother's attitude. He knew something about mothers who were perpetually out of sync with the people their children had grown up to become. He was cordial with his own mother, but little more than that. She had largely given up on him, Ezra thought, when he did not bounce back from the ordeal with Rosalie and go off courting the very next year — and of course she had already given up on Byron. The saving grace for both of them was that as adult men they didn't have to defer to their mother very often; he could understand that this was more of an issue for Hanna — or, apparently, for Miss Broadmoor.
"Which side of the divide is your brother on?" he wondered, meaning: did Magnus Broadmoor introduce Persephone to him because Ezra was an Unspeakable, an intellectual, someone with potentially interesting things to say on academic topics or at least a keen interest in hearing about them — or because he was technically an eligible bachelor?
"Which side of the divide is your brother on?" he wondered, meaning: did Magnus Broadmoor introduce Persephone to him because Ezra was an Unspeakable, an intellectual, someone with potentially interesting things to say on academic topics or at least a keen interest in hearing about them — or because he was technically an eligible bachelor?
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