By Ben Greenman
from forthcoming collection, as yet untitled
During the past few days the polar weather has done much mischief to romance. A rendezvous between Karen Kane and Alexander Norton at Landsdowne Park that carried great promise—his planned proffer of a trip away for the two of them, proposed at the spot where they first met, would likely have been their most exciting moment yet as a couple—was postponed from Friday night to Saturday. Unless an immediate change occurs, the rescheduled meeting is in jeopardy as well. This comes on the eve of several key moments in other relationships. Business in connection with the Jackson engagement and the Dufresne divorce are at a standstill, as neither party in either instance is predisposed to act favorably with conditions so frigid and bleak. Were it not for the remarriage of Jennifer and Harold Lewis, which no one believed would happen and most everyone still speaks of in hushed tones, as if afraid to break the spell, folks interested in matters of the heart would be puzzled to find any subject for conversation. As it is, the homes that are going up on Flying Fox Lane, the prices at which they will change hands, and the kinds of people likely to move there, young couples mostly, is the topic that comes closest, and as a result several people who previously showed no affinity for real estate have demonstrated, or at least feigned, an interest.
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