LENA

I did not notice when he moved to the table.

I want to be precise about this because in retrospect there is a version of it that looks deliberate, that has the particular and calculated quality of a woman who had arranged herself in a shared space with a specific and intended outcome, and that version is not the accurate one. I had been at the table since eight. I had been at the table since eight because the dining table had the particular and practical quality of a surface large enough to spread the gala correspondence across without the specific and frustrating limitation of the desk in my...