Anna Raverat

I love everything about hotels, but if I had to choose one thing it would be the breakfasts

“Just a little bit” has been my basic approach to eating and drinking since I was a teenager. Unfortunately a little bit of everything over twenty years adds up to quite a lot.

We are arguing about what to call it. He disputes the use of “affair” because they didn’t have sex and therefore it was not an affair but an “inappropriate friendship.” I believe him about the sex but object to the wording. I think “affair” is more accurate because their “friendship” was a secret from me and from her own husband and from their normal perhaps boring but appropriate friends, and because they had kissed.