两人终不再是当年的Rose and Jack
how do you break free without breaking apart"Wait here, my darling," she was saying. "Just for a minute, till I call you,"
and she left him alone in the kitchen, where the hot brown smell of
roasting beef brought tears to his eyes. She handed him an Old-
Fashioned glass full of ice and whiskey and disappeared into the
darkened living room from which, now, he could hear an ill-suppressed
giggle of children and the scrape of a match."
All right," she called. "Now."
They were at the table, and he looked into all three of their faces before he saw what it was that bathed them in a flickering yellow light. It was a cake with candles.
They came their slow, shrill singing:"
Hap-py birth-day to you..."
