“I suppose we could make any number of them,” he said. “The question is, would there be any use in it?”
“You said—”
“I know all that I said. I said you could be free whenever you wanted. And that implied the same thing for me, Andrée.”
“I don’t want to be free.”
“Why don’t you?”
“Because—I want—”
She held out her arms, her eyes filled with tears. But he did not move toward her.
“Al!” she cried. “Do please come here!”
“No,” he said. “Let’s not complicate the thing with—that. Just tell me what’s changed you. I’m here to listen.”
“Suppose—it was only that I’d found out I was wrong—and that I missed you, and wanted you back? “Wouldn’t that be enough? Haven’t you missed me?”