Marcus had a second cardiac event on a Saturday morning, more significant than the first, and they brought him back with a speed that the cardiologist described as fortunate and that Nathaniel heard as something considerably less comfortable.
They were in the waiting room for four hours.
James arrived within forty minutes of Claire's call. Olivia came with him, and Dana, who had not been asked but had seen Olivia's face in the cab and insisted, arrived twenty minutes later carrying coffee she had bought from three different places because she had not known what anyone wanted and decided to cover all possibilities.
Claire sat beside Nathaniel with her knee pressed against his and her hand in his, and she said very little because she had learned that silence was sometimes more useful than
