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Daniel smelled the roast from the path , and he saw the parish bulletin before he saw his mother . It lay on his plate , folded once , with the time of mass circled in pencil . He had come across the city for Sunday lunch , and he needed to know whether lunch was still only lunch . On the phone she had said it was . He had said that he was not going to mass . He wanted the seat at her table and the small quarrel about potatoes , not a second invitation back into a pew . If the paper on the plate was the real offer , he wanted that said before he sat down . Ruth came in with the dish and a smile that was trying to be only a welcome . " Father Keane asked after you , " she said . She did not glance at the bulletin . She had left it where his eyes would fall . Inside , it was the usual parish list : prayers for the sick , a choir practice , and the mass he had already turned down . Daniel picked it up . The pencil circle was neat , the same care she spent on train times and on the week his sister was due . He knew the speech she was holding back . It would mean something to her if he sat beside her . He would not have to agree with every line . He set the bulletin beside the bread . Not on the plate . Not in his coat . " I came for this , " he said . " If lunch is a way back to mass , say so now . " Ruth set the dish on the mat . He thought she might nudge the paper toward him , the way she nudged a second helping when she had decided he was being difficult . She did not . She flattened the crease and put the bulletin in the drawer with the bills . " Sit , " she said . " The potatoes turn to chalk if we hold a meeting first . " He sat . She sat . From the end of the road the church bell marked the time she had circled , and Ruth asked him if the carrots were too soft .
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