The girls’ voices shrill, defensive, Sean’s fruity tenor booming across the still air. The building machinery, which threw her from her sleep half an hour ago, has come to a standstill and every word of their row rings across the neighbourhood. ‘Fuck you, Daddy!’ shouts India. ‘Just – fuck you!’ ‘You can’t speak to me like that! You cannot speak to your elders like that! My God, I’m ashamed to have brought you up!’ Milly’s voice: ‘Well, isn’t it lucky you didn’t, then! Perhaps you’ll do a better job with the next lot, eh?’ ‘Oh, for God’s sake!’ Simone sits slowly forward and cranes round the edge of her seat to watch. Milly and India, still in last night’s clothes – no surprise to Simone, given that she has had the annexe to herself for the entire night – stand with their backs to her, clenched fists dug deep into their waists like fishwives. Sean has both sets of fingers buried deep in his thick hair to show his frustration.
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