She leant across the top of the piano and sang a song. They sat in silence on the patio. She told him she was a nurse. If she had told him this while they were on the patio they would have had something to talk about, but she told him while they were surfing. "A nurse?" he said while she was buying a hat.
   Ronan stood at the open window and said, "It was one of those days. Every day is one of those days. A grey sky. The smell of paint is the only thing that gives these days any sort of character. Listening to Maisy talk about the keys. She doesn't say much and what she does say is about the keys." He threw a boomerang into the field, and then he closed the window. "Lost keys and lost days doing nothing at all, nothing to distinguish one day from the next, all one day in the mind." The boomerang came back and broke the window. "I really didn't think that would happen."
   Emmet looked at the broken glass on the ground. Then he turned to Elaine and said, "You're really a nurse?"