The dinner, afterwards.
About half of them left within twenty minutes.
One of his brothers stayed and was extremely kind to Sabine and drove her home at about eleven.
She did not speak to me that night.
And at ten past midnight she sent me a message of two lines that I have kept.
***You could have posted it to me.***
***You didn’t have to do it in a room.***
That is the only criticism anybody has made of me in fourteen months that was correct, and it came from the woman I had spent seven months describing as a problem.
I could have posted it to her. I could have posted it to her in the February.
Eight months earlier. Before a weding, before a pregnancy, before fourteen people and a watch in a velvet box.
What happened legally.
Ruth Pell did it all and she was worth every penny.
