Claire Keegan

Sorry.

Behave.

Oh, no, not at all.

It felt absolutely right.

It's the right word.

Right words are never difficult to include.

I didn't actually make the change.

I submitted the story to The New Yorker pretty much as it is now.

And the changes were made by the editor.

And then I put the story back the way I wanted when it was published as a story by Faber.

So the changes that were made, almost all of them were made by Deborah Treisman, who's the editor of The New Yorker.

I was okay for the publication in the New Yorker, but I always knew that I would put it back the way I wanted it after it was published in the magazine.

Isn't that lovely?

I don't think so.

I think he's ruined.

I mean, I think he was spoiled.

And another word for spoiled in the way we use English here is the word ruined.

And it means your personality is ruined.

And what that means in terms of being spoiled is that you won't ever in your life really be willing to do things you don't want to do to have a better life, which means that it's kind of hopeless.

Yeah.