Some conversations only happen at that hour, when the light is going and nobody has turned on a lamp yet. There is a permission in the half dark.
My grandmother told me about her engagement in that light, on a balcony, forty years after the fact. She was wearing the ring while she told it, which she had not done in years.
That is the thing about jewellery that nobody puts in the copy: it holds the story for you until you are ready to tell it.
Soraya
