“Hardly any,” she said.

“And lots of room to move and nobody to pay you mind?”

“Only me,” she said.

“Sounds pretty good,” he said. “Now let’s stop somewhere and get us a dog.”

“That would be fine,” she said. “We can raise him with this damned baby I seem to be carrying.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

STEPHEN HUNTER is the author of thirteen novels. He is the chief film critic of the Washington Post and won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Criticism. He is also the author of one nonfiction book and two collections of film criticism. He lives in Baltimore, Maryland.