Which is, I have come to think, the best question anybody asked me in two years.

Because it contained the assumption that I was going to tell him.

And it contained permission not to, that night.

I said, “Now.”

Part Six: The Study

We sat in a room off the hall with books in it that I am fairly sure nobody had read, and I told him, and it took about twenty minutes, and he did not interrupt once.

The affair.