IF YOU LOVE ME, DIE FOR ME
Jeremy arrived at seven with food from a place I had mentioned once, in passing, three weeks ago, which told me he had been paying attention in the particular way of someone who understood that with Madeline Crawford, the details were where the truth lived.
We ate at the desk because there was nowhere else to sit yet, and talked about the foundation and the inquiry and a book he had read on the train that he thought I might like, and outside the window the city moved into evening, the lights coming on in buildings and the traffic changing its rhythm from the urgency of the day to something slower.
"I need to tell you something," he said, at some point when we had moved from the food to coffe