Opportunity Scholarship.”
There was a sound from her table, a little breath that became a laugh and then something else. She shook her head, not refusing, just overwhelmed.
“You don’t have to answer in front of everybody,” Evan added. “We can talk afterward.”
That was the sentence that undid her. He had planned a surprise and still left her somewhere to stand inside it.
The applause began before he finished explaining that the funding did not depend on her agreeing to the name. People stood.Others stayed seated and clapped.
