“Everyone—Lillie’s parents, maybe Lillie too—thinks that if Bobby had lived, I wouldn’t have come to Paris and taken this job. But I would have. And Bobby would have come to visit me here after six months and he would have known it was over: that he wanted a wholly and perfectly nice girl who spent her days thinking of him, not her work. In him dying, I get to be the grieving fiancée people pity instead of the woman who broke off her engagement for Dior.”
