Perfect People

LA.’

‘I like it there. Let’s see if they have a table.’

‘I’ll phone.’

‘Do you remember something you said to me there? Sitting out in the courtyard? You said that love was more than just a bond between two people. It was like a wagon-train circle you formed around you that protected you against all the world threw at you. Do you remember?’

‘Yes,’ he said.

‘That’s what it is going to have to be like from now.’