He helped her take off his coat. He had given it to her so she wouldn't be cold. And he asked her to talk to him, to tell him her story. And she spoke to him. For hours on end, she talked to him. And they cried again, once more.

And he spoke to her too with tears in his eyes and told her that he went out every afternoon with the chauffeur of the limousine and searched for her for hours on end, even months after her disappearance. He told her about the failed attempts to forget her and how he now realized that in the face of his future wife, he had found a misfortune of hers.

And they made love, and it was beautiful as they finished together for the first time as one. And then he took her again. And they felt as if it were like this forever. They had forgotten their previous lives. And then he said to her: 'I will not marry'!

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]