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veil and waited; listening to his footsteps。

Black passed through the doorway and saw me; then took a few more steps

and  stopped。  We  stood  five  paces  apart  and  beheld  each  other。  He  looked

healthier and stronger than he’d appeared through the peephole。 There was a

silence。

“Remove your veil;” he said in a whisper。 “Please。”

“I’m married。 I’m awaiting my husband’s return。”

“Remove  your  veil;”  he  said  in  the  same  tone。  “Your  husband  won’t  ever

e back。”

“Have you arranged to meet me here to tell me this?”

“Nay; I’ve done so to be able to see you。 I’ve been thinking of you for twelve

years。 Remove your veil; my darling; let me look at you just once。”

I  removed  it。  I  was  pleased  as  he  silently  studied  my  face  and  stared  at

length into the depths of my eyes。

“Marriage and motherhood have made you even more beautiful。 And your

face has bee entirely different than what I remembered。”

“How had you remembered me?”

“With agony; because when I thought of you; I couldn’t help but think that

what  I  was  remembering  wasn’t  you  but  a  fantasy。  In  our  childhood;  you

remember  how  we  used  to  discuss  Hüsrev  and  Shirin;  who  fell  in  love  after

seeing images of each other; don’t you? Why was it that Shirin hadn’t fallen in

love with handsome Hüsrev when first she saw his picture hanging from a tree

branch but had to see that image three times before falling in love? You used

to  say  that  in  fairy  tales  everything  happens  thrice。  I  would  argue  that  love

ought to have blossomed when she first saw the picture。 But who could have

depicted  Hüsrev  realistically  enough  for  her  to  fall  in  love  with  him;  and

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precisely  enough  that  she  would  recognize  him?  We  never  talked  about  this。

Over these last twelve years; if I had such a realistic portrait of your matchless

face; perhaps I wouldn’t have suffered so。”

He  said  some  quite  lovely  things  in  this  vein;  stories  of  looking  at  an

illustration and falling in love and of how he’d suffered desperately for me。 I

noticed the way he slowly approached; and his every word flitted through my

conscious mind and alighted somewhere in my memory。 Later; I would muse

over these words one by one。 But at the time my appreciation of the magic of

what  he  said  was  purely  visceral  and  it  bound  me  to  him。  I  felt  guilty  for

having  caused  him  such  pain  for  twelve  years。  What  a  honey…tongued  man!

What a good person this Black was! Like an innocent child! I could read all of

this from his eyes。 The fact that he loved me so much made me trust him。

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