
"I found Mom's old phone in the garage."
The church seemed to lose a degree of temperature. Helen made a sound too small to be a word. Naomi put her hand on the pew in front of her. David looked at the phone as if it were a tool he had misplaced and might be blamed for.
"Honey, we don't have to do this today."
"There's a voicemail. You never heard it."