"Not half so well as we deserve," Ife said in answer, though her tone was far too jovial to hold any trace of real complaint. She was in high spirits today with Kayode's arrival. Her marriage to her husband may have been pragmatic at best but she had always been fond of the children they shared, and she was doubly fond of all her various grandchildren. It helped matters significantly that she had given her stamp of approval to all of her daughters-in-law (and to her son-in-law Taiwo, for that matter); she might not have been quite so active in their wife-seeking as she had been for her Bosede and her stepdaughters when they were on the marriage market, but none of her sons would have dreamed of marrying a girl had she not first given her blessing to the match.
"How you have grown," she said, which was a standard greeting of hers whether the grandchild in question had grown or not. She visited their homeland far more often than her English grandchildren did, and she had seen Kayode as a grown man on her last visit, but given her attention to Callista's and now Iphigenia's prospects she hadn't been back in half an age, she felt. "Has this English air frozen you through yet, omo omo?"
"How you have grown," she said, which was a standard greeting of hers whether the grandchild in question had grown or not. She visited their homeland far more often than her English grandchildren did, and she had seen Kayode as a grown man on her last visit, but given her attention to Callista's and now Iphigenia's prospects she hadn't been back in half an age, she felt. "Has this English air frozen you through yet, omo omo?"