| 1 | Sitting in Mark's Buick, I still felt a bit as if in a trance. | |
| 2 | But still I am watching the lake, vaguely conscious, and I know my life is ending. | |
| 3 | If a person fails to respond in a proper manner at a precarious moment, we say they were "asleep at the wheel." | |
| 4 | On that precious night, watching the lake, vaguely conscious, you said, "Our story is ending." | |
| 5 | He looked as if he had not a care in the world and that in itself was startling these days, when other men wore such worried, preoccupied, grim looks. |