Russell, in fact, was not planning on calling tonight, to her knowledge.

"I understand. It's clear you went to a lot of trouble with it."

Her mind's eye focused, for one terrible minute, on that damned spinach leaf, and she had to bite her tongue. It was not acceptable to crack up laughing a second time under any circumstances, she told herself sternly.

"....but you did microwave four hundred dollars of truffles."