Chapter 27
Atlanta, GA
Charles
MONDAY BEGAN WITH a cold front passing through the area, followed by a drenching eary-morning rain that served to both dampen our spirits and prevent us from running. This, in turn, caused me to arrive at the office in something less than the best of moods, which was not the best of ways to begin the final week of preparation for a major trial. Somehow I got through the day without losing my cool, and by six, Philip and I were running in the park, after which we went to the Y and swam some laps. We retired early to the spare room, which we’d begun calling the study, the former study downstairs having acquired the new title of library.
He was working on a new novel, principally as a distraction from the period of waiting for the trial to begin, and settled
