“Ask him,” said Connie.
Duncan did so. Daniele said he was married, and had two children, both male, aged seven and nine. But he betrayed no emotion over the fact.
“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe,” said Connie. “The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass, like Giovanni.” “And,” she thought to herself, “like you, Duncan.”