"After a moment, he opened his mouth, then closed it.  He turned back to look at the water, and for a long time neither said anything.  Earlier in their marriage, they'd had fights that made Olive feel sick the way she felt now.  But after a certain point in a marriage you stopped having a certain kind of fight, Olive thought, because when the years behind you were more than the years in front of you, things were different.  She felt the sun's warmth on her arms, although down here under the hill by the water, the air held the hint of nippiness."

A Different Road
Elizabeth Stout
The Best American Mystery Stories 2008
George Pelecanos, editor
Houghton Mifflin Company
2008