The elevator stopped, the doors opened, ending the kiss.Were we there already?We had arrived at the sixth floor. Now, Ted walkedpurposefully down the ...all, and stopped in front of room635. He paused, extending his arm to me. I caught up, andwatched him as he opened the door. He smiled, and steppedaside, let me go in first. I hesitated, then stepped over the threshold. Ted moved the“Do Not Disturb” sign to the door handle on the outside, andstepped in, too. I hear d the door close,. He arrived about three-quarters of an hour later and pronounced a nasty sprain but no broken bones — at least none that he could detect. I then drove Zara back to her parent’s house in Maida Vale. We pulled up outside the house and, as I went around to the passenger side to help Zara get out, I noticed a big ugly scratch right down the side of the little car. ‘Oh dear,’ I said, ‘someone has scratched your car.’ ‘Umm … yes, that was me,’ Zara said. ‘I need to get it repaired but I need my car to. Nothing was ever certain, except that to fail to be open to possibilities ensured one might miss them.“It was Easter last year,” Joseph resumed his story. “The twins and I had gone for a walk down to the river while our elders digested our Easter feast. “Nothing really happened,” he added hastily when he saw the look of the others around the table. “Except that I kissed Charity when she turned to me on the path beside the river. I think she was going to say something, but instead she turned her. I almost don’t want to go to university but we can’t live on love forever.’ She said. ‘ Cant we? I mean, you could go to school and I can stay here, and I can still love you. Could you stay in love with me Cora?’ ‘Of course I could. Is that realistic though? I mean what do you think? You think we’re gonna grow up and marry each other?’ ‘Yes.’ Her eyes darted up and made immediate contact with his. His answer stunned her. She was being sarcastic. She didn’t expect him to answer that question..