He said: "You should."

Two words.

The specific and particular two words of a man who had received the naming of the destination and had confirmed it, who had agreed with the responsible thing in the particular and immediate way of a man for whom agreement was also not the full truth, for whom the two words had the specific and double quality of a thing that was both meant and not complete.

You should.

He did not say: good night.

He did not say: I'll finish up here.

He did not say any of the particular and practical things that a man said when a woman told him she...