A household in which three or four people each had a piece, and each of them had a reasonable-sounding reason not to say it out loud, and the only one who tried was nine.

The following ten days were their own thing, and I want to record them accurately, because when people imagine the aftermath of a public cancellation they imagine drama and it was not drama.

It was administration and telephone calls.

I got the deposits back on the chairs and the quartet and lost everything on the catering, the flowers, the photographer and the venue, which is normal and which was correct.

Nineteen thousand three hundred dollars, of which about four came back over six weeks.

Pamela’s family had paid for the cake and the rehearsal dinner and I sent Delia a check for both and she sent it back, twice, and I stopped after the second time because it had stopped being about money.