He told me my mother was worried.

He told me Megan had made commitments.

He did not tell me the buyer’s name, even though it was already available in the record.

I realized he wasn’t trying to hide the existence of a company.

He was trying to keep me from asking why that company had been chosen.

The next morning, he came to the hospital with two coffees in a cardboard tray.

“How’s your knee?”