For these reasons, Pam does not even mention John on the phone, and her mother assumes that she is still single. You know, your mother worries, Charles tells Pam, and she feels a little guilty, but not enough to change the status quo, which is that she and John spend nearly every weekend together, either at her place, in Providence, or at his, in Jamaica Plain. He doesn’t twitch at all when they’re together. In fact, his eyes are wonderfully green. Like Pam, he is a lawyer, but he is a sole practitioner specializing in wills and trusts. Like Pam, he enjoys black coffee and good jazz. But those are surface details. More important, he is openhearted. He loves animals. His ginger, Taffy, passed recently, and he keeps her picture on his desk. He does not think it strange that Pam still mourns her own cat, Shadow.