dinner with sylvia koning
that evening
sat opposite
over the dinner table
she had changed into jeans and a shirt and had let her hair down around her shoulders
latto thought she looked even prettier than before
koning had chosen the restaurant
on the wharf
the windows looked out toward the ocean
there were one or two late surfers still out on their surfboards
had an excellent meal and were enjoying the last of rich white wine from
they had talked a bit about
find out more about
he hope
would find out nothing and sylvia would never need to know
latto asked about the work that
by the time they moved on to coffee
they had started to find out more about each other's lives
how she had become a doctor and about life in the town where she grew up with her parents and three brothers
in the east of the
they all skied a lot in the winter and went shooting and fishing in the summer
latto told her about his life as a doctor in the small scottish town
conversation stopped and they were both quiet for a moment
you're quite unusual mark aren't you