She thought of him in the room, standing at the bottom of the bed.

He had to think, and the simple truth was he could not think with her in the room.

"He says you were thinking about her in the waiting room."

I do, and I'm sick to think of you in the same room with her.

I was beginning to think about other patients in the waiting room, about my schedule backing up.

And that was when I thought about Katy alone in the other room.

As Hay spoke, he thought of the highly unsure little emperor in the next room.

He thought of Alix in the next room, wondered if she was asleep.

It was too hard to even think with him in the same room.

Although, perhaps, he thought, not in the room at all, but inside himself.