Chasing His Divorced Wife
He looked at the print again.
"Like the fig tree," he said.
"Like the fig tree."
We bought it.
The bookshop was twenty minutes further. It was the kind of place that had been on that corner for thirty years and intended to stay. Narrow aisles, books shelved by a logic that rewarded patience, the reading room in the back exactly as I remembered it.
Two chairs angled toward a window. A small table between them. A lamp that was on regardless of the hour.
We settled.
He'd picked up something from the front, history, I thought, without looking closely. I had a novel I'd been carrying in my bag for two weeks, waiting for the right hour.