”Tristram is surprised, because if he got an eighty-five on a maths test, his father would want to know why.”
Oh dear! But I think that really reinforces the difference in their upbringing. However, I think Tristram is so used to his father and his ways that he really doesn’t take any of this too much to heart (at least I hope not).
The phones are a brilliant idea; and Tris is so serious about learning all the positions of the buttons; he’s definitely been affected in some way by the ‘kidnapping’, but as always remains very sensible.
”But secretly, he knows that his father loves his work better. He loves solving mysteries and being smarter than the police and teasing meaning out of tobacco ash and flakes of nail polish. He knows he can't say that, though, because that's the kind of thing that people other than him and his father and Uncle Mycroft don't understand.”
He’s so worldly-wise for one so young . . . but it’s a lovely, lovely trait!
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Oh dear! But I think that really reinforces the difference in their upbringing. However, I think Tristram is so used to his father and his ways that he really doesn’t take any of this too much to heart (at least I hope not).
The phones are a brilliant idea; and Tris is so serious about learning all the positions of the buttons; he’s definitely been affected in some way by the ‘kidnapping’, but as always remains very sensible.
”But secretly, he knows that his father loves his work better. He loves solving mysteries and being smarter than the police and teasing meaning out of tobacco ash and flakes of nail polish. He knows he can't say that, though, because that's the kind of thing that people other than him and his father and Uncle Mycroft don't understand.”
He’s so worldly-wise for one so young . . . but it’s a lovely, lovely trait!