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The suitcase sits on a café table , not a bed — Nils has carried it in with him , clasps open , the bone folder visible in the left pocket . The café owner sets a coffee down and says nothing else . He orders a second coffee . Clara 's train sits on the line , two hours outside the station , for no announced reason . She holds Nils 's book — she picked it up at the last stop , meaning to read one chapter , and has now read twenty pages . The call comes at ten past nine . Clara looks at the suitcase on the seat beside her . " I am two hours outside the station , " she says . " The board changed here . " He does not move from the window . " I 've read twenty pages of your book , " Clara says . She tells him the ending she expects . Then he tells her the real ending . " That 's better , " she says . Then the call goes long — the longest and quietest of any call they have made . He asks about the blue door . She does not deflect this time . " It is a door I have been meaning to go back to , " she says , and stops there . " I tied your ribbon around the book , " Clara says . " It was marking my page . " Nils is quiet for a moment . " That 's a good use for it , " he says . Neither mentions a new plan to meet . The plan simply stands , unspoken . The café owner turns off the outside light . The suitcase is open on the table .
