George Findlay awakens from his nightmare, his wife Julia admonishing him that he is about to miss his car; he is on a three-day assignment to produce a TV magazine feature on a fashion model. "Well, she's a little young for you," Julia says waspishly, studying the model's photograph. "I guess I don't have to worry about this one...don't forget your asthma medicine." She has taken notes on a script he left for her to read, and promises to put them in his briefcase. As he leaves the room she reaches for the briefcase, but her attention is distracted by his jacket, lying on the chair above the briefcase, and an open envelope in its pocket; surreptitiously, she removes a piece of paper from the envelope and starts reading.

"He had never before been in love. He became intoxicated by the novelty, by the miraculous luck. This couldn't happen to him. For him, love belonged in the world of fiction and dreams, and he lived in the rational world. So at first he tried to understand it with lists: Her morality, her im

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