He told her on the twenty-sixth morning. She woke, and he was in the bed. He had been in the bed for several mornings now. He had not been in the kitchen before her. He had not been in the part of the cottage that had been the part of him that was not her. He had been in the bed, beside her, and he had been awake, and she had known he had been awake because the breathing on his side of the bed had been the breathing of a man who has been awake for a long time. She said: *you are awake.* He sa...