I did not watch her go inside.

I heard it. The specific and particular sound of the terrace doors, the movement of air that happened when an interior door opened and then closed, the sound that told me she had gone in without the particular and direct information of watching her go.

She went inside.

I kept talking to Thomas.

Thomas was saying something about the board and about Marcus and about the specific and particular sequence of events he had been tracking and I was saying the specific and responsive things that the conversation required and I was doing it with the particular and practiced quality of a man...