"Okay, I stand corrected. You don't have to say that but you think it because you're biased." Not that she was complaining she thought, but the truth was the truth.
Oh God! Now that would have been a disaster. Allegra and a relationship with anything or anyone other than herself and mirror in a dance studio was a recipe for failure. "I won't be at home forever. In four years I'll be out of school and of age, and you'll be alone."
She turned to her Uncle for support. "He shouldn't be alone when I'm on my houseboat, should he Uncle Terry?" She became distracted by the fairly quick arrival of their food and her water.
And then her mind jumped tracks back to where it had been before. "What are you going to teach me? What did you learn when you were in the DA?"