Are you happy he had asked. This sounded like the start of a long conversation

Divorce itself was an inevitable soap opera, of course. The roles were prewritten, no way to do them differently, no way to make them your own. She could see how it was killing Daniel not to be the hero in his own divorce. You have to remind yourself that it isnt just the good Daniel who left, Jocelyn had told her. The bad Daniel is gone, too. Another man was interested in her. A suitable man. A man who read Jane Austen.