the three of them crammed in, emptying their mail slots.
One of the men said to her, “I’d like to take you to lunch tomorrow.”
She turned instantly to the second man and said, smiling, “Why don’t you come, too?”
“Three’s a crowd,” the second man replied.
“Ah, come on, it’ll be fun.”
“I don’t think that was the original plan.”
And so he bowed out.
After the long weekend on Tuesday morning, there was excitement among staff at school that the lunch couple was suddenly engaged.
(The kind of thing that happened at work more than once that I can recall in my 30 year teaching career.)