"Oh. I am a nosy bitch."
"You're not a bitch," Will said. It was important to get something right. "You're not a bitch. I was at a concert. We were."
"You and Heidi."
"And a bunch of her friends. It was at Cornell. String quartet. I had to wear a tie."
"Guess you got rid of the tie."
"It's in the car—with the rest of the uniform. I'm in the service, the
Air Force. Only dress up clothes I had."
"My brother was in the Navy twenty years. Gets a check now, every month."
"I won't make twenty."
"I've never been to a quartet," she said. "Cornell is big bucks."
"The music was great. Haydn. But her friends were laughing at me.
What's Heidi doing with an airman? They don't see too many airmen at
Cornell. We've been together since we were fifteen—high school."