Chapter 26
I THREW some clothes and toiletries into an overnight bag and booked into a motel down the road. I could have stayed with my parents, but I wasn’t in the mood for explanations right now. Or disapproval. Most of my friends, also lawyers, had drifted away after I left the profession; and the couple I was still in contact with had wives and families, and I didn’t want to impose on them.
I watched TV until midnight, with no recollection of what I’d seen, and went to bed. But thoughts and memories whirling around in my head kept me wide awake. Sarah and me, the first time we made love at her place, when she’d blurted out that she loved me as she made me scrambled eggs the next morning, our garden wedding on a sparkling spring day, the sun shining on our marriage, my parents smiling
