That’s sort of the point.”

And what I said was: “Well. Good.”

Good.

I said good, and I put a plate away, and I asked him whether Priti was going with him, and he said no, and we talked about something else.

Here is what I was doing, and it took Dr.

Ayyar about four sessions to get me to say it out loud.

I wanted him to go.

Not for his sake.