"Could make for conversation at a seafood place," Penn said.
"If we ate out. If we talked."
"I remember that trip we took to Hawaii. He didn't say much. Nice guy, though, over on the windward side in—what was the name?"
"Lanikai."
"Right, Lanikai."
"So, what about you? I guess you gave up medicine."
"Yeah. It was a cruise, learning, but when I got to doing it—I don't know—all that misery. I ducked into management. That was worse. Boring. I chucked it for the business game, the market." He paused. "You know how they used to say: sometimes you get the bear; sometimes the bear gets you." He flashed the old Penn smile.
"Where are you living these days?"
"One of my buddies has a boat on the lake. He's not using it right now."
"Getting cool, isn't it?"