I Came Home With My Husband’s Suitcase—Then an 11:14 p.m. Call Revealed Who Would Answer When I Needed Help

You still don’t have to decide that tonight.”

I heard her shifting something near the phone.

“Would you like me to come over?”

I almost said yes.

Then I pictured her getting dressed, finding her shoes, coming down the wet path because I could not spend one night in my own home.

“Not yet.”

“Then call me if that changes.”

She did not say I could manage.