An Unexpected StopCALOY IS SMART. Caloy is hardworking and faithful. Caloy is patient and generally easy to please. If he doesn’t always remember all of the occasions that are important to her, he is unfailingly generous when he does happen to remember, or is reminded. If he isn’t the sharpest dresser, he is amiably resigned to her incessant manipulation of his wardrobe. He is better-looking than he thinks, if not as funny as he believes, especially when he attempts to lighten a tense situation with a stupidly inappropriate Poltergeist joke.
Piya opens her eyes and stops, in mid-mental-litany of her husband’s qualities, seeing that the exercise has all too quickly begun to take a bad turn—and hasn’t she had quite enough bad turns for one day? Yes, she certainly has.
Nevertheless, she mak
