very clean, very soft hands.
“Because if you fire him,” I said, “he goes to some other bank in some other town. And he takes everything he learned today and throws it away. Or worse, he learns the wrong thing. He learns that the old lady in the dirty boots was secretly rich and powerful, and that’s why he should’ve been nice to her.” I shook my head. “That’s not the lesson. That’s never the lesson.”
“What’s the lesson?” Brandon asked quietly.
“The lesson,” I said, “is that you should’ve been nice to her even if she wasn’t.”
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