One Hundred Years of Solitude

such a state of intimacy that
later, without realizing it,
they were whispering to each
other.

            I   want    to  be  alone   with

you, he said. One of these
days Im going to tell
everybody and we can stop
all of this sneaking around.

            She did not try to  calm    him

down.

            That    would   be  fine,   she