“Uh huh, then just a minute ago when you were sneaking a peak at my book, you reached for something near your brow, like maybe a glasses frame, but you’re not wearing glasses. I’ve seen you do that several times in the past few days—”
“I used to pull them down to my nose so I could see up close—”
“A myope with hyperopia…in a twenty-year-old.” Her eyes were opening wider.
“But the biggest change is in your deportment. You walk like an older person, more carefully, as if you think you have lost some of your equilibrium when you really haven’t. And your choice of vernacular is different. It’s more sophisticated, like you’ve learned more words over the years and are constructing sentences in a way that suggests to me someone who has spent a lifetime of reading…a long lifetime.” Marta’
