“What things?” Chris asked.
“Just things.”
Chris finally gave up and turned to me for help.
At first I couldn’t do any better. I’d call for Ed and I’d get Edith.
“Ed said—.”
“Things, I know,” I said, cutting her off.
“Oh you heard?”
I offered to meet Ed at the job.
“Ed said that’s not necessary,” Edith told me.
I offered to send a manufacturer’s representative to the jobsite.