Chapter 46

She said, “No. He’ll have his chance, like the rest of us . . . a slightly lessened chance, I grant you, but a chance to win what he wants out of the show. Tell me, have you had everything you wanted, or very much that you wanted, even? Yet, would you have missed it? I’ve had very little that I wanted. I used to think I was very special--that I was brilliant. I am not. I am rather commonplace. I shan’t do any of the things I expected to do when I was a girl. Yet, I wouldn’t have missed my chance at them. I have won…