LENA

It was a Wednesday.

I want to be precise about this because the Wednesday quality of it matters, not a significant day, not the particular and weighted day of a Sunday dinner or a foundation meeting or any of the specific and notable occasions that had accumulated since September. A Wednesday in the third week of November, the particular and ordinary quality of a midweek evening, the specific and unremarkable shape of a day that had been a working day and was becoming a working night.

The foundation documents had expanded.

This was the specific and particular nature of the Harper endowment process, the preliminary approval had generated a...