Part Seven: Sunday People

He went to his parents’ house, and I found out later that Wendy sat him at her kitchen table at one-fifteen in the morning and asked him for the girl’s name for two and a half hours, and that he would not give it to her.

Arthur told me that, weeks afterward.

He said Wendy had gone to bed at four and had not slept, and that at six she had come downstairs and started making bread, which is what that woman does instead of screaming.

Luca came back to the house at nine-forty the next morning, after the kids were at school, wearing the same gray jacket.