if they had been sons , they might have been told , they probably would have been brought into the business and might have saved it from ruin ; but no , they were female and therefore , left in the dark and ultimately , left to a fate completely out of their control . i shot her a dirty look and went back to admiring my little bump . suddenly they were no longer speaking of birds . we stopped-in the middle of nowhere . i run back upstairs to the studio we slept in . he was still fishing when they arrived . 