Can I take you to your hotel?"
"No, thank you.
I am going to stay here a while."
"I know there is nothing to say.
I cannot tell you--"
"No," I said. "There's nothing to say."
"Good-night," he said. "I cannot take you to your hotel?"
"No, thank you."
"It was the only thing to do," he said. "The operation proved--"
"I do not want to talk about it," I said.
"I would like to take you to your hotel."
"No, thank you."
He went down the hall.
I went to the door of the room.
"You can't come in now," one of the nurses said.
"Yes I can," I said.
"You can't come in yet."
"You get out," I said. "The other one too."
But after I had got them out and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good.
It was like saying good-by to a statue.
After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.