”“Maybe it’s better not to brood,” Susannah said. ”“All right. Yet Roland is not here, he realizes; they are four instead of five. He would remember the face of his father.
” Jonas tossed the towel into the bathroom, crossed to the bed, and took his shirt from where it hung on one of the footposts. They might start off talking but would likely end up kissing . “We want what everyone wants, so far as I know—to go back home again, ’cause there’s no place like home. If she could not meet him, Susan said, she would hang a red shirt over the sill of her window, as if to dry.
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