The summer before, Lewis and I had walked along this beach every day
in the late afternoon. This summer he had brought Samantha. Now I could only go
to that beach in the early evening when I knew they would be drinking gin
and tonic on the porch of his studio. Lewis was very regular in his habits.
He regularly had a new young woman painter almost every season it turned out,
but of course at the time I hadn't known that.
Now I will write about how I met Luke McCrae.