Call Me a Cab

8

At breakfast, Katharine suddenly broke a silence by saying, “Whatever happened to the girl in the cab?”

Katharine was the girl in the cab; wasn’t she? I said, “What?”

“The one who wanted to commit suicide, but she was afraid of heights. That was a true story, wasn’t it?”

“Of course,” I said. “All my stories are true. She was going to jump out of the cab when it reached sixty.”

“But the air pressure is too strong on the doors at that speed.”

“That’s right.”

“Whatever happened to her, do you know?”

“She married the cabby.”

“Oh,” she said.