"You really shouldn´t, Robbie - at your age - talk with grown-ups about things like - what we were talking about. You shouldn´t spread the yacking. If you were a good brother, you wouldn´t do that."
Robbie was standing in the kitchen, spooning up the last of the walnut crunch ice cream from its plasitc container. "You´re not a good brother," Robbie said. "Dad says that. He says you´re not a good brother to me."
That little git.
I really loathe the double standards in this novel. Robbie is doing whatever whatever he is doing (I don´t think it´s something good, though) and the parents look the other way. And Arthur gets grilled for everything he apparently does wrong and is treated as an outcast.
Page 150: Ah, never mind. Robbie has been brainwashed and he is the golden boy. That explains it.
This is such an infuriating read. And yet, I don´t know what´s going to happen. And something will happen. It´s a Highsmith, after all.
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