Ceremony
Three o’clock in the afternoon
The Signet Library
Parliament SquareEdinburgh EH1 1RF Open in maps
Our storyA slow beginning
Portrait
We met in the queue for the last train at Châtelet, both of us certain it had already left. It had. One of us suggested walking; the other suggested that the river was, in fact, the other way. That was right, and we walked anyway: across the Pont des Arts, four kilometres, two crêpes and one long argument about Proust.
A letter arrived the next morning, written on the back of a gallery ticket. The reply took seven days, which one of us insists was strategy and the other insists was the post. Six years, three apartments and one very patient fig tree followed.
Last winter, on that same bridge, the question was finally asked. The answer came before the sentence was finished, which has been taken as a compliment. We would love you there when we make it official.
