"Sounds perfect," Cathy says, the accompanying smile a genuine one. It's difficult, it is, to keep all her worries buried when they could so easily come to the surface, everything she's been afraid would happen since they both got here seeming to be set in motion. She doesn't want to celebrate his manuscript being published, his first book showing up here; she's done plenty of celebrating his book and him and his brilliance and his success. A night out, though, just the two of them — the promise of another when his advance comes through — is the best thing she could hope for right now. Chances are, that'll be hard to come by before long. "On both counts."