I couldn’t hang on to a thought, my mind erasing what I was seeing while I was staring at it. Well, that’s all right, that’s all right. “Close it!” Brenda screamed, and the girl on her knees whose face I did not want to see was turning, her chin, her cheek, her profile appearing. In a second she and I would be staring straight into one another’s eyes. The door was slammed shut.
