The Baby Doctors. Janice Macdonald

His plan had been to call her, suggest another Frugals trip, this time without drifting into the murky waters of professional ethics. That it still irked him to be accused of selling out was, he realized, because he shared her opinion.

      “Elizabeth’s drinking,” Pearl said. “I worry about her.”

      “She told me she was going to counseling,” Matthew said.