There was only one hiccup as far as I could see, and that was the fact that I had yet to meet his mother. I only mention it because that had seemed of the utmost importance to him before we arrived, and now he doesn’t seem too keen; in fact, he hasn’t even mentioned it with all the running around we’ve done.

I concluded that something had gone wrong, but I was too chicken to ask, because I was afraid of what he might say. Since I didn’t want anything to mar our ...