We've all been there: all dressed up and ready to go out, waiting for our partner or spouse so we can begin our evening, watching the minutes tick by until they are supposed to arrive. The kids are in bed, and Sophie is watching the clock as time goes by ever so slowly, and her husband is still not home. The language Vaughan uses to create the scene has me biting my own nails in anticipation of the husband's arrival. There is some reference of a past transgression that leads you to conclude that the husband is most likely not caught up in some sort of emergency, but rather is late/not coming home because of another woman. When the husband finally arrives, my eyes begin reading faster than my brain can comprehend, because I'm dying to know what kept him so late and forced Sophie to cancel their plans. His demeanor and behavior alludes to something far more scandalous than your run of the mill office affair. And then he says it, and you know that there is going to be so much more to this, because "the story's about to break."