‘I was thinking about the people saying Good-bye; sleeping together
like us, only for the last time, people just like us, and I thought,
“Supposing it was you and me?”’
Walter said:
‘I know.’.
He held me tight, and I pressed close up to him. The beating
of his heart throbbed through me again, like the pulse of the
world. And all I had, seemed dearer than ever before, as I realized
that it could be lost.