“Before you two.

The eleventh.

He came in about half past two and sat in that chair” — and she pointed at an upholstered chair by the window in the corner of the ceremony room, the kind that is in every waiting area in every public building in America — “for about an hour.”

I said, “What did he want?”

And she said, “Nothing.

That’s what I asked him.

I said, Walter, what do you need.