‘Did you think I would come with nothing?’ ‘It’s just a lot.’ He’d tried to explain. ‘A lot? I do not have so very much.’ ‘Just a lot to deal with.’ ‘What did you imagine?’ ‘I don’t know,’ he said. ‘Not this. Just not this.’ ‘I cannot understand,’ she told him. ‘You knew I had to leave the flat in Rathgar by the end of the month. You asked me to come here, to marry you.’ ‘I just didn’t think it would be like this, is all,’ he said. ‘I just thought about your being here and having dinner, waking up with you. Maybe it’s just too much reality.’
