Then the finger joined the girl, the tray banged shut, I was standing by my shopping cart, studying the mesh pattern of the collapsible wirebasket, trying to recall what was already slipping away.
S., the resident director of wine education and a master sommelier, who came bounding into the lounge one evening with a wirebasket of empty bottles (from an outdoor tasting) and a waiter's corkscrew wagging from his back pocket.