The Woman in My Dress

She cut his sandwiches into shapes and did not make a thing of it.

She noticed that he flinched at car doors, and started closing hers with her hip instead of a swing.

She noticed that he would not go into the garage.

She noticed that he was afraid of the phone ringing, and asked Harrison, in the second week, whether the house line could be switched to a light instead of a bell, and Harrison stared at her and then went out and did it himself that afternoon with a screwdriver.

Harrison Vance was, in that period, almost entirely absent and entirely present at once.