Allen

"Here is the telephone number of Robert." Arianna immediately scrawls a number on a slip and hands me the moment I tell Robert to talk to Robert and settle the matter. Accepting the chit from her I foster a heart of steel. What a hapless geezer I am! I would probably be the only guy on earth who would be marrying off his wife, to another man. "You should have called him." I tell her with a forced smile. She grins from ear to ear. "Believe me, I did many times but the phone was always unreachable." Her eyes cover in a glum expression.

"Robert was very sad when...