The Weight of Gold
“From a gallery. In the city.”
She waited.
“They want to show the work,” he said. “Not restoration. The original pieces I’ve been making. The test boxes, a few chairs I made for myself. Someone came through the workshop in October — a friend of Sable’s, as it turns out, though I didn’t know that then — and apparently she told the gallery and—” He stopped. “They want a show. A real one. Six months to prepare.”
Eleanor felt, in the space before she spoke, the complicated geography of the moment: the genuine happiness for him, the something else that complicated the happiness, and underneath both of those, a question she hadn’t known she’d been sitting on.