She was wearing a navy dress that cost, I would guess, about a hundred and forty dollars, and low heels, and no sunglasses, and she was carrying nothing.

She had cut her hair short some time in the last six years and it is grey at the front and she has not dyed it.

She looked forty-four years old.

That is the honest description.

She looked like a woman of forty-four at an outdoor wedding in ninety-four degrees.

At the table where a young woman was checking names, she said her name, and the young woman found it, and said, “You’re at table nine, that’s near the front—”

And Maren said, “Is there anything at the back?”