The wife I swore I’d never be
“I’m told you’ve been useful to my wife. Introductions. A stylist. Coffee, I understand, on a fairly regular schedule.”
I said nothing. There was nothing to say that wouldn’t be a confession of something.
“I want to be clear with you,” Donald went on, “because I don’t think anyone has been.
“You are, in the scheme of things that matter, a very small man. An entertainer. A face that gets recognised in restaurants and forgotten by the time the bill arrives.
“I don’t say that to be cruel. I say it because I think somewhere in the last month you’ve begun to believe you’re something else, and I’d rather correct that now, gently, than watch you find out the hard way.”
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