Chapter 15
Lena awoke the following day in her own bed not knowing when or how she had arrived. She stared in horror at the clock on the night table and decided to call her office and tell her secretary that that day she would come in the afternoon due to an indisposition, a resource that when used by women do not usually generate further questions. She got up and had breakfast in abundance, taking in total three cups of coffee to evaporate or at least cover the effects of the hangover.
The woman thought with concern that in the last two months she had been drunk more often than in the previous twenty years, and took the determination to curb that state of affairs. Again the Irish mother dictated her rules, she thought. But then reflected that they facets in her life were changing at a
