Ready to go

“I’ve always got my travel essentials ready, in case I need to leave town on short notice”, he said matter-of-factly, and he showed her the drawer where he kept a small bag with toiletries and his passport. She wondered if he considered it an attractive feature in a man to be perpetually prepared to disappear. A few days later he was gone again, but this time he called from the airport to ask her to pick up his mail.