But it's not reciprocated. She told us this morning: "I don't love Adoon. I don't love Dad. I don't love anybody." Pause. "I love Babar. And Cornelius." Cornelius is the uncle figure in the Babar stories. I can see where this is headed. And it's bad news for Isaiah, who was unfailingly gallant to her at dinner on Saturday. When asked why he is so nice to Eliot, but not so to his little sister, he told his mother "But I am in love with Eliot!".
Aren't we all, and we have the scars to show for it.
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