I want her day just to be beginning, for real, because I'm home. I want to feel more . . . And then he adds that he's not ashamed of any of this. Georgia properly decks Billy. As well she should.
Men are supposed to be providers, women get pregnant.
What we want is sex, what they want is money. I guess lots of men live this way. So many of my male friends have spent so much energy trying to convince me that men really are boors who want to bend every woman they see over a rock, that I might have to start believing them. Although that may actually be the answer. Men like Billy, of course, are why Ally is alone.