Second Bloom
They are simply more present — more deliberate about the evenings, more willing to let conversations run long, less inclined to end things on time.
On Monday, Ethan takes the day off, which he does not do easily and which she does not make a thing of. They drive out to Great Falls (a national park on the Potomac River about fifteen miles northwest of Washington D.C., where the river drops suddenly over a series of dramatic waterfalls and rocky rapids — one of the most striking natural landscapes near the city), where the river does something violent and beautiful over the rocks below, and they sit on the overlook for an hour saying nothing much and everything necessary.
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