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"Susan, what's going to happen to us from here in--I mean you and me?"

She looked at the clock. "There is so much we could talk about--and no time. I don't think we'd better plan--do you, Jeff?"

"No, I guess not. I just want you to sit quiet. I want to memorize you."

She looked down at her fingers, locked together in her lap. "There's something else I have to say."

"Go ahead."

"I just wanted to tell you you don't have to worry."

"Worry? About what?"

"About last night. No remorse. No obligations."

He leaned over, and kissed her hair, and said, "I want obligations, darling," and the loudspeakers began to whine, and somebody coughed into the microphone. Then the loudspeakers said Flight 86 was loading at Gate 3 for Shannon, Prague, Vienna, and Budapest.

They rose and moved together towards the gate, becoming part of a funnel of people, the spout of which ended under a sign saying, "Passengers Only."

They were pushed close together, and she said, "I guess this is the end of the line for me." She kissed him once on the lips, lightly so as not to smear him.