Louise came out of her reflective mood and smiled, then said, as if just discovering it, “Why, yes, when you think of all the big things there are.”
“What about Billy’s death? Is that a big thing?”
“A big thing to Katie, just as our being together is a big thing to us.”
“What a horrid way of putting it!”
“. . . Marriage is being together, though.”
He let that pass and returned to his point. “A big thing to Katie, but negligible in the light of something else, I suppose you mean?”
“Exactly.”
“In the light of what, for example?”
“I don’t quite know, dear. I’ll tell you when I’ve had time to philosophize it out.”
She kissed him and went out to the saddle shed.