Some people are just better off dead.
Visiting a prison is draining.
Have faith in him, Michelle urges.
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A roadside phone call establishes that Valerie in the throes of divorce.
She is also strikingly disagreeable, even in the space of a minute.
So grotesque is her fury that Michelle trembles with the thought that perhaps she was.
Either that or she is losing her marbles, as she confesses to her doctor.
Maybe, as Valerie insists, she should make the house over to her before she gets too dithery.
On the contrary, it unfolds as gently as autumnal leaves drifting to the forest floor.
The trees turn russet; the firelight glows.
This is John Keats season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, the calm after summers storms.
