loose threads

"Tashi knows that Art saw Patrick. That she sees Patrick. She can't ever tell him she knows though, because then she will have to tell him how she knows. Art's sock. His sock in the back of Patrick's four-wheel car that is worn out and lived in. His sock with the hole in the big toe that Tashi sewed back up for him the other night when he was particularly stressed and upset after losing yet another tennis match."

Or: Patrick can't let go of Art and Art can't let go of Patrick and they both go crazy over it. Patrick knows it. Art knows it. Tashi knows it. No words were said when it mattered most and now it's too late.