From a distance, he sat watching her talk to her friend, watching them gasp and grasp at each other, holding hands, be almost skipping in place, giving things to each other to touch and to feel, moving mouths at blistering speeds, doing all this as an aerobic exercise till they were themselves looking for seats, and, finding them, taking them together in an intimacy so quiet that he felt it to be too much about itself, too private to look upon, too little about him.