First Charles, the oldest, and then, the next brother, had failed in their marriages and come back home. And now macon had come as well, to lie there with his broken left leg in plaster and be looked after by Rose.
She was pretty in a quiet, serious kind of way, and ran the house efficiently, being as neat and organized as all the Leary family. Everything in her kitchen cupboards was arranged in perfect alphabetical order-rice,salt,soup (fish), soup (tomato), soup (vegetable), sugar, tea.