SINFUL DESIRES
The river below was doing what the river did, moving through the city indifferently, carrying the light from the banks.
“The last scene of the novel,” she said. “Thomas on the bridge.”
“Yes,” he said.
“He’s not waiting anymore,” she said. “The letter never came and he stopped waiting.”
“Yes,” he said.
“That’s the saddest part,” she said. “Not the ending of the waiting but that he stopped.”
He was looking at the river.
“The waiting is the hope,” he said. “When it stops.”
“I know,” she said.
She was standing beside him and she felt the six months of the translation and the argument about dépaysement and the full name solution and the question about the person who had used the formal address in