Seeing through glamour is easy. It's people that are hard.

“Before Tessa could answer, there was a knock at the door, and a familiar voice.…”

“You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I …”

“Still I pictured having you for fifty, sixty more years. I thought I might be r…”

“As long as there was coffee in the world, how bad could things be?”