"Richard Paul Russo - Watching Lear Dream" - читать интересную книгу автора (Russo Richard Paul)

could never have known. That only you knew. Or I knew. Things that you can't
know about yourself because he never knew them."

"Then help me, Samuel. Help me to become me. Tell me the things that you know,
that Lear never knew."

He turned away from her. This was insane. He needed to bring her under control,
and dispatch her before it became too difficult. Except that it was already too
difficult.

"Samuel. What would you tell me about myself? What would you tell me that Lear
doesn't know?"

He was looking across Lear's sleeping body and out the small window, gazing at
the fruit trees behind the house. The reddish-orange fruit, in clusters of three
or four tiny spheres, was almost ripe. Another few days and the bitterness would
be gone and the fruit would be sweet, the thick juice cool and refreshing.

"You were his wife," Samuel said without looking at her. "He was your husband.
But I loved you too."

"He knows that, Samuel."

Yes, he thought, of course he does. But there was so much more. He turned back
to her. "But what he didn't know was that you loved me as well." He paused, his
stomach folding, clutching at itself. "And we betrayed him."

"He knows that, too," she said.

"He knows?"

Teresa nodded. "I know, and so he must know."

Samuel was too stunned to reply. He looked again at Lear, at the closed eyes and
open mouth. His old friend.

"Come," Samuel said. He turned and walked out of the room, and Teresa followed.

He led the way to his own room. It seemed so stark and empty to him now. He
hesitated for a few moments, then went to the small closet and opened the door.

"You'll have to stay in here until dark," he said. "They'll try to destroy you
if they find out you're still..." What word? "...alive," he finished.

"They might not be able to," she said. And there was something hard and defiant

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in her voice.