The Other Mrs. Cross
he said, and put a hand briefly over his heart, which made her narrow her eyes at him, suspicious of anything that looked like a joke aimed over her head.
The store was a long narrow place with a cat asleep in the window and a rack of birthday cards nobody had touched since spring. Mabel went down the cold aisle slowly, inspecting every bottle with a hamster pressed to each cheek like a pair of earrings, and Dorian walked beside her with his hands in his pockets, giving her room. She picked an apple, put it back, picked a grape and put that back too, and held a third bottle up to the light as if checking it for fraud.