129: National Limited

Unlike the poor Red Hook area of Brooklyn where the Sosa family lived, Will Morgan’s family home was in the Dyker Heights community between 11^th and 12^th Avenues. The neighborhood was affordable to a combination of working class and modestly middle class residents, a great many of whom were hard working immigrants from Italy and Ireland.

As Andrew’s Rolls pulled alongside the curb out front, Evelyn watched the three younger Morgan children dart up the staircase into the house. She was pleased to see that the residents here weren’t gaunt or starved looking. Though their clothing was nowhere near the quality or caliber of the high end designs from Moreau’s that she wore, it was clean and well cared for. The children she saw had toys to play with and seemed happy despite the inequity of wealth that divided them from her.

She understood from Will that his mother and grandmother were resourceful, and both were good cooks. Like her, they’d learned to