JULIAN

I did not notice the handwriting until the fourth letter.

I was reading the contract. I want to be precise about this because the precision matters, because I had been reading the contract with the specific and practiced attention I brought to contracts, which was not approximate attention but the full and particular engagement of a man who had learned that the thing in a contract you were going to need was usually in the part that did not appear to be the relevant part, who read thoroughly as a matter of specific and professional habit.

I had been reading the contract.

I was aware of her at the...