If you ever want me at a table with them again, you make sure they come with their own wallets, because the walking credit card has closed her account.

And then I picked up my wine and I went up the stairs to our bedroom and I shut the door, and I did not slam it, because I was not in a rage, I was in a decision, and a decision does not need to be slammed.

It only needs to be kept.

I lay in the dark and listened to my husband not come up for a long time, and I found that I could sleep, which surprised me, and which told me, more than anything I had said downstairs, that I had done the right thing.

The body knows things the mind is still arguing about.