She reminded me that my grandfather had objected to paying for bread in restaurants and then eaten three rolls.

I remembered him folding a napkin around the last one because he refused to waste something he had complained about buying.

We laughed over our bowls.

Then Eleanor asked if I was going back to Indianapolis that evening.

“Yes. Work tomorrow.”

“You don’t have to stay until the next review?”

“No.

The records are secure.