When Benjamin was finished talking, Pandora gulped. But her inner voices were all in agreement with what he had said. "I know that I hide my feelings, and I'm sorry. It's just hard for me to confide in anyone. But when could I have talked to you about it? We've barely had an hour together without someone —the hospital— interrupting."

Just as if to prove her point, Benjamin's pager went off. Benjamin seemed to just sit there and his pager went off again.

"You should probably get that," she ...