Well, I supposed meeting his soul mate, if that was what Bascopolis proved to be, in a hospital, couldn’t be any stranger than meeting him in a supermarket or waiting on the corner bus stop.
What troubled me was that Bascopolis wasn’t working right now. Did that mean he was chronically unemployed? Was he a leech? Would he take my son for everything he could and then leave him, breaking Wills’s heart?
“Jill, would you tell me the truth? Has Wills always been like this, and I just didn’t see it?”
“If he was, I didn’t see it either, darling Jack.”
“Oh my God! I didn’t pressure him into acting straight, did I?”
“No.” She came to me and hugged me. “Now, you pacing and wearing a hole in the floor won’t get them here any sooner. Why don’t you go open the pool? We’re supposed to have good wea
