“There’s Denny.

That’s real and I’m not going to pretend it isn’t, and you’d be entitled to think it’s the whole answer.

It isn’t the whole answer.

“Here’s the whole answer.”

She sat down on the stool.

“I spent four years at a card table, Wes.

And I spent about two of those years waiting for you to come out of the other room and say one sentence, and you never did, and eventually I stopped waiting, and the day I stopped waiting is the day I actually left — about eight months before the paperwork.

“You’ve changed.

I can see it.

You’ve done more work in a year than you did in six years of marriage and I’m not being sour about that, I’m telling you I’ve watched it.