The call would come between two and four. She had the afternoon off. She ate her lunch. She did the dishes. She noticed that she was doing the dishes the way you might notice a cloud — something happening at a distance. She opened the laptop. She closed it. At quarter to two she sat in the chair by the window and watched a woman sit in a chair by a window. The phone rang at three-seventeen. The woman answered it. The nurse was saying things. She heard the words but they were not quite landing on anyone. She hung up and waited to come back.
