Chapter 26
He tipped their heads together, after. He breathed, “This is right.”
“Yes,” Colby said. “Yes. It’s a goodhistory—two men getting to be happy together, because they did, they could, we haveto tell those stories—”
“But it’s also so right for them. What they do with the house, with their lives—”
“I wanted it,” Colby said, “to feel like joy.” In Jason’s arms he looked like joy too, wrapped up in an embroidered period dressing gown, with rumpled hair.
“It does,” Jason said. “It does.”
“But to make that change…” Colby hesitated, excitement not dimmed but reshaped. “First we’ll have to tell Jill, of course. It’ll alter the tone of the film.”
“She’ll love it. I love it.”
“I think she will—we’d talked about the ending before, and I’d said I wasn’t entirely happy with it—but it’ll mean a longer shoot. I can put more money into it, that’s not a problem, but we’ll be asking the crew to extend their commitment. I’ll understand if some of them can’t, of course.”