JULIAN

I came home because of the quarterly review.

I want to be precise about this because the precision matters for the specific and honest accounting of the evening, because there is a version of coming home early on a Thursday that has the particular and motivated quality of a man who had been watching the terrace schedule with the specific and unofficial awareness of a man who knew that she went to the terrace on Thursdays in the afternoon, and that version is not inaccurate, and I am going to be honest about that, and I am also going to say that the quarterly review was genuinely the reason...