So he sighed, and shook his head.  He wondered why she was so tired, maybe it was the heat.   Nathan thought he’d just order room service.  He sat down at the edge of the bed.  Then he decided to lie down beside her.  He told himself that this was only to remember what it had been like.  Catherine was so small in comparison to Sadie.  He could wrap himself around her completely and sleep comfortably.  He remembered he’d had to do this in Germany, sleep like that all through the night, keeping her warm.  Catherine couldn’t sleep when she was cold.  So, this position, her folding into him, it was how they lay now; he thought about how it had been necessary that spring, since he never could get the apartments to turn on the heat after February.  It had been a particularly cold year, but he felt now it had made them closer.  

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