Molly stalked through the kitchen and began pulling salad things from the icebox, then turned to the sink for a rather large knife. "You know what? I don't even know. I don't even think I want to know. But after all I've tried to do for today, do you know how the boys in this family repay me?"
She hacked through a head of lettuce, then began chopping it into bits. "By fighting. Yelling at one another right outside my house. As if there hadn't been enough!" A cucumber and a pepper joined the lettuce against the wrath of Molly's knife.
"Just when I think that maybe I can take a breath, not worry about anyone dying for half a minute, and here they are practically trying to kill each other."
She stuck the knife into the board with a vicious stab and gripped the counter with both hands. "Percy broke my heart when he left," she said softly. "Sometimes I think I've only just got it back, with Fred, and Gideon..."