I was born in it.” “ Well"-he laughed-" so was I.” “You? How can that be? Are you sure?” “Yes. You’ll know his name when you go back to bed tonight, wherever that is.” “Why, in that house, behind you,” she said. If it wasn’t here in Green Town, it was in Cairo or Alexandria or Rome or Paris in summer, anywhere there was a private place and late hours and no one to see, so they just rose up and out, as if someone had called their name-” “I was called, yes! That’s it! Someone did call my name! It’s true. I think girls, women, like you have slipped out at night since time began. I’m impossible!” “No, you’re everyone that ever grew up too fast and wanted too much.
“ I’m waiting.” “Yes?” “And I’m sad.” “ It’s the waiting that makes you sad, yes?” “I think, no, yes, no.” “And you don’t quite know what you’re waiting for?” “Oh, I wish I could be sure.
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