Chapter 24I awoke early and lay in bed thinking. Jerzy snored away. He muttered and moaned in his sleep as if talking to somebody, making conversation within the dream he was having. The time would click by slowly until I met Maria at one o'clock. I hoped I could concentrate on the match this morning. I tried to see her face, hear her voice. Each had faded over time. Was she still the same girl I had known? Or had she changed since we'd last met? I threw back the covers and put my feet on the cold floor.
“What are you doing?” Jerzy mumbled.
“Getting up.”
“It's too early.”
“Then stay in bed.”
Jerzy's reply was to turn over with his back to me. “You'll get no argument from me.”
I slipped out into the hall and padded quickly down to the lavatory. I washed my face and hands, then after g
