Although they are both exhausted, neither wants the night to end, so they take it in turns to find ways to say, this is just the start of things. Dawn, who has learned that it is easier to plan than to remember, dares to say, “You could bring the children, when the weather warms up? Are they too big for building sandcastles? I’m not good with children’s ages.” “You’re never too big for sandcastles,” Maggie says, quite certain that Tom would say he absolutely is, and only half sure about where Olivia would stand on the matter.
