Chapter 91. Under Her Own Name

Diana answered Iris on Thursday.

She wrote the email three times, then removed everything that sounded like an apology.

She would finish the commissioned article as agreed. She would also be interested in another assignment about beginning again, built around people whose lives she could explore through interviews. She wasn't offering her marriage as the next subject.

Then she added a sentence about the proposed heading.

It put the change in the wrong person.

She read that line once more before sending it.

At Hans, the morning was too busy to watch her inbox. A delivery had been delayed, a client wanted an answer nobody had ready, and Helena asked Diana to help untangle the account history before lunch.

Diana did the work.

The pleasure of being useful returned slowly, arriving through a problem she could solve without revealing anything about her husband.

Iris replied at two.

She understood. The personal essay fee had