He likes this, planning with her. It's like he's sketching out an alternate life for himself, one away from everything he hates in the one he has. One without family or work or obligation, just the easy pleasure of having her company (of having her).

"Then you're going to need to switch beds, because yours is the most comfortable one I know. I sleep deeper there than any mattress I've owned."

The crepes come and he sips coffee, cuts it with a fork.