I had the living ones to take care of now.
Well, at least I can take care of her now, he told himself.
But it wasn't the job she was thinking of now.
"Do you mind so very much if I take care of her now?"
Yes, it gets in the way of the now and then.
Better to drive her of now, before he got any more involved.
And it wasn't his father he was thinking of now.
She gave no thought to what the future might hold, because this was a different world of now.
All he can think of now is getting far away.
After all, she had two children to think of now, not just herself.