Less’s friends Lewis and Clark. Twenty years a couple, they suddenly announced they were splitting up. It turned out they had a date every ten years to reconsider their contract, and at the last appointment, the contract was not renewed. They drank champagne and parted. “We took each other as far as we could,” Clark reported, smiling, to a stunned Arthur Less, who reported it to me. Just like that, the love was over. And after traveling all that way!