Did You Invite Me?

June, 1974

Did You Invite Me?Rachel first met Gilbert at David and Sarah's, or it may have been at Richard and Phoebe's--she could not remember--but what she did remember was that he stood like a touchy exclamation mark and talked in his shotgun manner about his dog. His talk jumped so that she got confused: The dog was his wife's dog, but was he talking about his dog or his wife? He blinked very fast when he talked of either. Then she remembered what David (or maybe Richard) had told her. His wife was dea...