UNIT 10 Two Strangers
Not that I would have cared. No, it is not the reason why I stopped.
He gave a faint sigh, like the sigh of one
who has a thousand stories to tell but only a moment left in one’s life.
In fact it was the sound of a piece of metal hitting the pavement that made me turn around.
I had already passed the man, walking promptly as I always do.
I had all the time in the world that evening, and I had nowhere to go—
I just took a walk along the street. But as I tried to draw out my keys
from the pocket of my brown leather jacket, a small coin fell on the ground making that clinking noise.
Why would I pull out the keys from the pocket here, on the street,