William and Clare- Your Borders, Your Rivers, Your Tiny Villages

I decided to go back and look at one of the earlier stories of Clare and William to see how their relationship was before they actually got together as a couple. I was curious to see if their fate in ending up together was obvious from the start, or if it was unexpected to their ex-spouses and to the readers who read the stories.
This first story in the collection about William and Clare takes place when William is still married to Isabel and Clare is still married to Charles. The two couples are staying together for the night, something that isn't out of the ordinary, given their close relationships. Isabel and Charles are sleeping, and William and Clare are watching television on the couch. Bloom discusses the relations that these characters have with each other and how these relations are much better than those they share with their own spouses. The story, as most of the stories in the collection, ends abruptly without a real conclusion.
I was interested to read that Bloom does not try to hide the affair between William and Clare. She explains exactly what happens between them and doesn't express any guilt between the two characters. I think something that could have been interesting in this story would be if Bloom tried to conceal the affair a bit more and have the true details about it come out later in the story. That would leave the reader hanging on more and not leave them frustrated, like I have been. I'm not sure exactly what about this story makes me so frustrated; maybe it's the simplicity and I'm waiting for something big to happen. Affairs, divorce, and remarriage are big and important things in a person's life and the way Bloom describes them seems to simple, too anticlimactic than it should. Since I have read most of the stories in this collection, I don't think the plot will ever reach a climax, but this though disappoints me.