The Rescue AttemptShortly after the “lunch,” William called Maya to apologize, adding that he trusted that they would keep what he said between the two of them. “Of course.”
She heard nothing from him for two months. She wondered what happened and whether he had gotten through whatever led him to open up. Out of the blue, on a Saturday in early September, he called. He started a monologue. He went to New York to try to “rescue” his daughter. He said he arranged to have a client meeting a few weeks before his daughter was to marry this friend of hers. (This surprised Maya, who thought his wife’s leaving was the source of his crisis.)
The meeting ended, and he went to his daughter’s company. They walked to a nearby park and after they sat down on a bench he told her that he came to take he
