We passed the triangular farm on our left and the path widened to allow us to walk together. I hung back in the separate unasked and unanswerable questions.
She would still choose five years and counting of unanswerable ifs, of hypothetical hypotheticals, of a life that was reshaped by one face, spotted out of the corner of her eye.
I was able to develop this series of unanswerable reasons for ten minutes without interruption; not that the Professor was paying any respectful attention to his nephew's arguments, but because he was deaf to all my eloquence.