"I don't remember it."
"You've been very ill; oh, so ill."
He said slowly, "Yes, I think I've been down in a pretty deep place."
"You're going to be splendid now, Marko."
He did not respond to her tone. He said, "I've come on a lot in the last few weeks. I'd an idea you'd been about me before that. I'd an idea you'd be coming again. There's a thing I've been thinking out to tell you."
She breathed, "Yes, tell me, Marko."
But he did not answer.
She said, "Have you been thinking, in these weeks, while you've been coming on, what you are going to do?"
His hands, that had been crumpling up the sheet, were now laid flat before him. His eyes, that had been regarding her, were now averted from her, fixed ahead. "There is nothing I can do, in the way you mean."
She was silent a little time.