"I could say that I do not blame him, but Ted was not aware that he had fathered a son. Glen knew this, and if only for that reason he should have invited Ted to wait -- right here where we are sitting."
"For years, I have imagined Ted walk away from the winery, knowing that I was married and that he would never see me again," Susanna said to Caydance.
They were sitting together inside the winery cafe. On an early October day, out the window rows of vinyards lay beneath Gold Country hills. On the table was a house salad, cheese, pate, a baguette, and in deference to Caydance's return drive home, apple cider.
"Do you think your husband knew that the man who appeared that day was Treharne? He could have invited him to stay until you returned."
"Yes, the man who appeared that day -- and the way I wordlessly went after him was unspoken between us on that day and for many months. Glen was a friend of the family. He had seen the photograph that Ted's grandfather had taken of Ted and I together.