Say When by Elizabeth Berg

Author:Elizabeth Berg [Berg, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780743411370
Amazon: 0743411374
Barnesnoble: 0743411374
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2003-01-01T06:00:00+00:00

As Griffin turned to back out of the driveway, he caught a glimpse of Donna. All these years of having Ellen on the seat beside him, and now here was a relative stranger, whom he had just gotten off a bed with. Life was so arbitrary. What if it had been Donna’s profile he’d grown used to? He could have been married to someone like her, lived in a house that differed radically from his own. It was Ellen who had always dictated the style of the places they’d lived. She preferred a warm and somewhat cluttered look; “eclectic,” she’d called it, though Griffin called it sloppy. You could see Ellen in every room—in the books she left lying open on the armrests of chairs, in casual arrangements of the rocks and shells she collected, in the changing displays of things she brought in from outside: forsythia and lilacs in the spring, blue delphinium from her garden in the summer, bowls full of red and gold leaves in the fall, holly berry draped on the mantel in the winter. You could see Ellen in the wear of the furniture, the familiar sloping of the cushions in the chairs she favored.

She started sewing projects and left them on the dining room table; she drank half her coffee and left the mug on the hall radiator. It always annoyed him. And yet Donna’s house, with all its elegance, was cold and uncomfortable—no place he’d want to hang around. When he got to know Donna better, he’d help her sell it and find another place that suited her better.

They found a parking place nearly directly in front of the theater. “I don’t believe this!” Griffin said, and Donna laughed, saying she always had good luck with parking. “Stick with me, kid,” she said, and though he smiled at her, another part of himself grew cold and said, Don’t.

They agreed to buy tickets for whatever movie the people ahead of them were going to; neither of them knew anything about what was playing. Donna had said that she would buy the tickets, and Griffin had just said no, he would pay, when he saw Ellen. She was standing in the crowded lobby beside a young man Griffin had assumed was there with someone else until he put his arm around Ellen, then looked down at her smiling face and kissed her quickly. He thought, for one red instant, about attacking the guy, then quickly got his emotions under control. He shoved his hands in his pockets, stared at the man. For God’s sake, he had a pony tail! And he was wearing a white turtleneck sweater with his blue jeans. Ellen hated turtleneck sweaters. For that matter, she hated ponytails, too, hadn’t she once told him that? Or was it that she’d said she hated businessmen wearing ponytails. Yes, that was it.

Griffin continued to stand immobilized until he noticed Donna moving up to the ticket window and requesting two tickets. He stepped up beside

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