4672. Donna, the hostess who was sitting next to him, did not know
what to do with him. It was four in the morning; it was her job to attend to
the needs of the travelers, always with a special eye to their fears.
4673. She knew that
Coromo had been scared to death, and so she wanted to comfort him a little. She
held back for this simple reason, her desire to comfort him was a little too intense.
Since she felt this urge so strongly, she did not put her hand on his shoulder,
which is the thing she most wanted to do at that moment.
4674. Coromo considered his situation to be preposterous. He was
crying like a child, and yet was aware that it was also some kind of a performance
he was putting on for his audience of one person.
4675. Although his crying was a performance, at the same time it
was genuine, and he maintained the intensity of his grief by remembering, one
after another, all the tragic things that had happened to him in his life, not
least of which was his rejection by that third sister.
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