At first he glanced at the door during and between chores and didn’t believe she was really gone or that she wouldn’t return at any moment and it took two days until his concentration wasn’t divided every second and he stopped imagining her bursting in prematurely with renewed energy to resume what she thought was his rehabilitation but in truth was a much different exercise under his, and not her, control and on his third day alone he was less worried she would cut short their separation and more worried about what she was expecting of him as soon as they were together again and he knew it was nothing less than a breakthrough and he was certain that when she asked him all questions owing her for the question-less days they were apart, she was expecting that exercise to be a precursor to t
