She immediately told me to call her Grace. She heard the chaos in the background and told me laughingly that she had already been to church. Yes, she would be glad to see me that afternoon when I was coming over anyway. She might be out for her afternoon walk, or her p.m. constitutional, as she called it, but I could wait for her on her porch.
Tom agreed to take care of the boys, who wanted to do homework together at Gus’s place. Arch asked if he could drive Tom’s sedan to the Vikarioses’ house. I could have married Tom all over again when he immediately said, “Of course.”
Once Julian and I made it over to Boulder, I dropped him off at his apartment, as promised, so that he could gather some clothes and odds and ends. I promised to pick him up in an hour, and took off to meet the departe
