... home. She writes: "You just went off, just ran out of the house in the middle of the night, and left me." This means that she of course cannot verbally express her feelings in person ("There's no point really in writing this because it can't reach you...I don't know where you are"). This links in with the father in 'Growing Up' - a successful businessman and doting father; as shown in "Robert Quick, coming home after a business trip...He had missed his two small girls". Note that the girls are described within Mr Quick's narration as being rather young. It is established later on that they are in fact twelve and thirteen years of age. Cary goes on to tell of how Jenny and Kate, the two girls, greet their father dismissively but quickly become aggressive towards both him and their canine pet, through fighting and pranks. Mr. Quick's "garden ...

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