My boyfriend—or as my mother says, beau—Doug Wrentham, is an assistant district attorney in the criminal courts of New Haven. This is important to know if only to understand that even when making an idle comment, Doug can make it sound very serious. And since we are about to arrive at Verity Rhodes's house, the editor of Expectations magazine, I'm hoping this is not a sign that he is itching to misbehave. He doesn't want to be here tonight. He could have gone to the Yankees game, and they're playing the Mariners tonight, his team of all teams.
