The narrator tells the story of a thirty-year-old man who has just separated from his wife. He tells her that she has to tell her mother about the divorce and that she will be angry with him if he knows she is still in love with him. He asks her how she and her new boyfriend met, and she tells him that they did meet in the shower. She says that she does not believe that she was scratched on her wrist, and that the man who scrubbed her skin in the