Chapter 31
WHEN TOM RETURNED home late that afternoon, he found Noah upstairs in the former sleeping porch, hard at work on his laptop. “How’s it going?” he said.
“I think I’ll be ready to face the committee and defend my dissertation by the time we get back from Europe,” Noah said.
“Great.”
“So how was your day?”
“Well, I got to play the new organ a bit.”
“You mean it’s finished?”
“They’re still doing the final tuning, but they’ll be finished on time.”
“What else?”
“How’d you know there’s a what else?”
“Because I know you.”
“I did sort of happen to have a short meeting with Agnes and Dr. Fillmore.”
“And?”
“I’ve been granted tenure, and I’m now a full professor.”
“Cool. Let’s go to bed and celebrate.”
“You talked me into it.”
They began to count the days remaining before th
