The Fly in the Ointment

This is post 10 of Section III. To begin at the beginning, go here. Section II begins here. Section III begins here.

It was Lizzy who proved the fly in the ointment of domestic bliss.
“Ed,” Gwen said to him in a low voice one day while Chloe was taking a nap and Lizzy was playing on the computer. “That little girl spends entirely too much time in front of a screen.”
“Lizzy?” Bennett queried, looking up from his notes on the relationship between pastoralism and the nation state, a comparative study of Greece, Rome, and the modern West. “Quiet little thing,” he said, approvingly.

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