She was standing four feet from his elbow in her good pearls and he came into that room and did not look at her, which I noticed and which I have thought about a great deal, because it means he already knew.

He had worked it out in a car.

Somewhere between Brian’s front door and that hospital room, with Brian driving and saying nothing or saying everything, my husband had understood exactly what he had done, and he came through that door already knowing it, which is why his eyes were the way they were.

And here is what happened in me, and I have to be honest about it.

Part Fifty-Two: My Heart Leaped