Matt looked perplexed yet impassive. She worried he would even be annoyed at being dragged out of his evening for this crap. Roisin had rehearsed a more ambitious version of this speech, and she immediately junked it. It turned out life was not like romantic comedy films. Making grand statements about your passion to an unwary person you knew well was not like that scene at the New Year’s party in When Harry Met Sally; it was excruciating. It was raining, and she did notice.
