"Where were you?" he asked. "I thought you don't go anywhere out here."
"I went to a modern dance class today for the first time," she said, her eyes shimmering with warmth. "I thought it would give me an interest."
"But I've come home with an ulcer," Stern said.
"I didn't know that," she said.
"Who was the one in the car?"
"José," she said. "The instructor. He picks up the students and takes them home."
"I saw a kiss," said Stern, a slow and deadly beat beginning against his stomach walls, as though fists inside him were pleading for attention.
"Oh, that's just a thing he does, like show business. It was nothing."
"But I saw tongues," said Stern.
"No, you didn't," she said. "I can't help what he did. I didn't use my tongue."