she is in her forties and furious with him he stands tight-lipped at the window clutching his hands his eyes shadowed over and dull and unseeing why wo n't he talk to her is this a punishment it is n't her fault and she tells him so he grunts do n't shut me out she says and comes closer puts a hand on his shoulder he shrugs her away she shuts her eyes shuts her lips you 're like a child she says forget it just forget it i ca n't do this anymore i just ca n't they have been fighting it seems to her for years over everything she can not bear it she tells him that she wants to leave him god she wishes she 'd never met him he just shrugs the shrug says fine then go then leave and she curses him and sinks into the chair across the room and she watches him look out his window until he too sits comes to rest with a gentle sigh and they stare at each other across the room and across that distance which seems now immeasurably wide .