It happened on the seventh night and neither of them has ever once pretended it was a mistake.
They had been in four rooms for six days. She had stopped sleeping on the sofa on the fourth night because it was ridiculous, and for two nights nothing at all had happened and both of them had lain awake for most of them, four feet apart, in a flat in Graça, listening to each other not sleep.
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