![]() ![]() Declan asks her when she’s heading off to Paris and she tells him. He listens to them as if they are performing a play and he is the only audience member. She and Declan start talking instead, about people and events that have nothing to do with Aidan. She doesn’t speak to him again for the rest of the journey. And she stops looking at him and turns around again. Is she looking at him just to show him her face, the face of a screenwriter? When she speaks, her voice sounds totally different. She has a pale forehead and her lips are pale, so her mouth appears as one delicate line. ![]() Why is she looking at him like this? Her face is expressionless. In fact she stares at him, right into his eyes, for two or three seconds without speaking, maybe even four full seconds, a very long time. Why wouldn’t I?įor a few seconds she says nothing, but in the darkness and silence of the car she looks at him. He is alarmed, feeling that he has offended her and that Declan will be angry with him later. ![]() Her hair, he notices, is pulled back from her forehead by a wide velveteen band. The woman, whose name is apparently Pauline, unexpectedly swivels around to look at him. For some reason Aidan does not wish to seem surprised by this knowledge, though he doesn’t think he’s ever been in a car with a screenwriter before. ![]()
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