Especially this late.

Chapter 13 — What We Saved for Later

The real conversation — the one that turned it from a thaw into a marriage again — happened on the back porch on a warm night in June, and it was not dramatic, and I remember every word.

We were sitting out there with the last of the light, not talking, but the good kind of not-talking now, and Hal said, apropos of nothing, “I keep thinking about all that time we said we’d have.

Later.