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I went back to the empty room a great deal, in the days after Saloni said what she wanted. I would find myself standing in its doorway in the morning with my tea going cold, or last thing at night on my way to bed, drawn to it the way you are drawn to worry at a loose tooth, and I understood that the question she had set down in there was not going to close on its own, that I was going to have to answer it, and that the answer was going to be made of something harder than the easy yes a generous man gives to a generous idea. I distrust the easy yes, having given so many of them in my sleeping years. The sleeping man is generous with his agreements precisely because they cost him nothing; he says yes the way you nod at a stranger, pleasantly, without engagement, already moving on. I had...
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