Somebody help me read this. Love ZS, Tichborne great subject, but just can‘t stick. 2023
P3 “The filthy boy stood on the doorstep. He might be scrubbed of all that dirt, eventually—but not of so many orange freckles. No more than fourteen, with skinny, unstable legs like a marionette, he kept pitching forward, shifting soot into the hall. Still, the woman who‘d opened the door—easily amused, susceptible to beauty—found she couldn‘t despise him.”