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Show house/' 412 But I knew that Danny already suspected, for he had waited outside one of my classes at the university one day, and invited himself to 'that apartment you share with your girlfriend. ' He had gone along with the play, letting me know he knew it was a play, and we had both acted surprised to find Brian, rather than my girlfriend at the apartment. ~ Danny had always made it his business to know what was going on in my life, although he rarely passed judgement openly - and always left me wondering whether he thought less or more of me for what I was doing. But then, Danny was married in the temple. He could not possibly approve of me. At last the man in the brown suit came to me and opened the case. I checked price, instead of size. At last I found one, a nice flat little diamond^et in a platinum band. I asked the man in the brown suit to set it aside, giving him Brian's name and my discount card. I could feel his eyes probing my back as I hurried away, /believing that this mousy man knew all about Brian and me, knew that we was were living together, and was convinced -- asABrian's mother - that I ha<4 only done it to trap him into marriage, and not because the time is so short and the possibility of death gaping like open jaws all around us. Or perhaps the man in the brown suit with his beady, skeptical eyes had sensed my loneliness, the solitariness that I had come to take for granted but which still stuck out all over me; perhaps he believed that there was no boy named Brian to claim the ring and that my entire life was a pathetic fabrication. There have been times when i k |