Tucked at his table against the wall, unnoticed by the entranced listeners around him, Lew wept.
This was the start of it all and the end of it all. He’d been obsessively focused on this search with no time for anything else for the months, since he’d woken up in that dark alley in the rain, adrift from everything familiar. To see her here, in such an unfamiliar setting, twisted his sense of balance. She ended the song and began another—he recognized it but couldn’t have said what it was. He beckoned over the waitress and ordered another whisky, downing it quickly. He called her back over and as he ordered another he spoke.
“I think I may have met Miss Fonteyne during the war. Is it possible to send a note to her?”