…and MoreEileen was sad but relieved. As she headed towards the parkway she pulled into a dead end and stopped the car. She first called Kerry and told her what she had done. She had not spoken to Kerry about it beforehand, and Kerry knew enough to give her Mom space to work out things between her and Tom and her and Simon, and now she told her Mom that she knew she made the right call. Kerry had only met the two men briefly, enough to say she approved of them both, but the vibe she got from her Mom made her preference increasingly clear.
Kerry hesitated before asking, but she asked and her Mom said, yes, she loved him.
Eileen’s second, and briefer, call was to “him,” i.e., Tom. She said she was on the road but could be in Chappaqua in half-an-hour. She asked if she could stop by, and he
