I welcomed the guests.

I hugged the relatives who had driven in from other states, and I thanked them for coming, and I meant it, because I was going to need witnesses.

Nathan arrived looking every inch the devoted groom.

He was good at it.

I will give him that until the day I die — he was so good at it that even then, even knowing everything, I could catch myself half-believing the performance, which told me exactly how thoroughly I had been fooled for three years.

He touched my arm.