I have never read a letter.

I have never asked what is in one.

Part Thirty-Six: Arthur

Nothing happened between us for twenty-six months and I want to be exact about why, because the story people construct is a romance with an obstacle and it was not that.

It was a legal impossibility that was explained to both of us, separately, in the same week in November, by two different lawyers, in almost the same words.

Patricia said it to me.