She had saved his number on a Saturday morning and had not responded for two days.
She had put the phone down after saving it and gone back to her coffee and the kitchen window and told herself she was not going to reply from the immediate place, the reactive place, the place where you received something significant and moved toward it before you understood whether you were moving from honesty or from the reflex of having been reached.
Sunday passed. She went to the garden, called her father, and sat on the bench. She did not respond.
She wrote the first response Sunday evening at the desk in the sitting room with the lamp on. Three sentences. She looked at them and deleted them. They explained too much. He had not asked for an explanation.
The second response came Monday morning befor
