And I wore it into that kitchen and Rebecca looked at it and said:
“Oh, that’s nice. Well — good thing you can still afford things like that, because expenses in this house are really tight right now.”
I hung that coat up in the closet in the back bedroom and I did not wear it for five weeks.
And Then Six Months Before Thanksgiving, I Heard Something Through a Window Screen
This is the one that put the needle in.
It was a Saturday in May, around four in the afternoon. The sliding door to the patio was open about eight inches and I was in the laundry room, which shares a wall with the patio, folding towels.
And Rebecca was outside on the phone with her sister.
She had no idea anybody could hear her. I want to be clear about that. She thought that house was empty.