"I know. I'm retired too. I'm also three weeks into a Zumba class and I have apparently learned something about what my wife actually needs and I have done this primarily by accident." He paused. "Retirement is not the end of things being available to happen."
She looked at him. He was looking at the garden with the expression he sometimes had when he had just made a logical connection and was slightly surprised by where it had led.
"That might be the most useful thing anyone has said to me in two years," she said.
"Tell no one. I have an image to maintain."
She laughed. The real kind, the full kind, the kind that Meghna would have recognised as sounding exactly like Rajan's laugh.
