When his normal season of lectures ended it was silently agreed they both would move on. She had graduated college now and wanted to do professional field work. He had writing, consulting, and traveling.
Through Anne, Ranglen introduced her to Henry, with whom she could start an internship. Ranglen liked to think that the flame of their romance carried over into hers with Henry—that it never would have happened if their own entangling hadn’t been so strong. It was a selfish thought but it helped the transition, especially since he felt that Henry wasn’t good enough for her and that maybe they themselves had failed their relationship. He thought of her afterward with conflict, that their break-up might have been more convenient than right.
And so, now, when they met once again in Ranglen’
