
The stain on the sheet ended up being, in the end, the least important part of that night. What really mattered was to realize that the silence with which I had agreed to give up my place was not peace: it was a custom that, if I did not interrupt it in time, I was going to define every year of my marriage.lksr
There was no scandal. There was simply the first limit I put—and the first one he learned to respect.
End.