They’re happily married — but not to each other.

Sara’s mother told her she shouldn’t marry Conrad, that the twenty-five-year age gap would tell in the end. The end is now (apparently) approaching fast.

Conrad, a famous painter, has decided that it would be good to die before he gets seriously old and so spends his time sorting out his chaotic life. Sara, teaching art at a local college, finds that she has plenty of male company — other people’s husbands, ones she tells Conrad all about, who are just good friends to her.

But there’s one she somehow doesn’t get around to mentioning . . .