[ Claire knows now, what that sound is, and she knows he's arrived. What they're getting up to is around the back of the house instead of in Plainview so as not to scandalize the neighbors. ]

This is my husband's home, his father built it. We'd planned to live here together, once.

[ Her smile is small and a little sad, but she doesn't dwell on her emotions. ]

It makes me feel closer to him. Since you and I last spoke, someone from home has arrived, though not a person I'm very well acquainted with yet.

[ She's certainly not as intimately familiar, in any case. ]