And the way he stood, his attention may have been similarly divided. XXX She walked into the park which lay between the building where she worked and the bus stop where David would be going home from. Ginny was more than a little shy about speaking to men whom she didn’t know, and she didn’t know any in the city. He walked into a park and stopped to watch some children play, and she stopped beyond him to watch the same children. She normally preferred more practical nightwear, though she had a few times slept nude when she first got the waterbed. But she knew, she imagined, that this exertion, once she had recovered and rested, would double back on her in the form of a great emptiness at breakfast the next morning, and a hunger of another sort that would be less easy to assuage — at least without David. Ginny imagined him holding her body to his, then holding her face while his tongue darted
