从计程车里走下一个约莫四十岁的女人。一个相仿年纪的男人坐在餐厅一楼靠窗的位置，他一下子就认出了她。自从他们分开，已经过去了二十年。她弯弯的杏眼还是一下子让他想起了那个曾经很爱笑的姑娘。
他们面对面坐着，同时注意到了对方的手。她的手上戴满戒指，却惟独左手无名指没戴。而他惟独在左手无名指上戴了一个不起眼的钻戒。那双曾经让她着迷的在琴键上灵活移动的修长的少年的手，已经变成了一双粗糙，没有光泽而粗笨的中年男人的手。他们打量着对方，试图从蛛丝马迹中判断旧日的情人离开了自己后过的如何。
女人忽然想到那首拜伦的诗，那首他们分手后无意中看到的，曾经让她泪流满面的诗：若我再见到你，事隔经年，我该如何问候，以沉默，以眼泪。那个曾经让她想象过无数次的重逢场景，此刻就在眼前，却和她想的全然不同。她忍不住扑哧一声笑了出来。她意识到自己的失态，轻声说了一声抱歉。这笑声让男人感到紧张，他不动声色地确认了自己的领带是不是歪了，下意识地触碰了一下他特意为这次见面买的高仿钱包，却差点弄翻了水杯。
“我去一下洗手间，”男人挤出一个强装镇定的微笑。他起身，她的眼睛从他的上身扫下去，看到了他因为久坐办公室不锻炼而塌陷的臀部。男人走进卫生间，对着镜子正了正自己的假发。他看了看手表，租来的车还有两个小时就要还回去。男人深吸了一口气，走了出去。
A woman got off from a taxi. She was about forty years old. A man about the same age sat by the window on the first floor of a restaurant. He immediately recognized her. It had been twenty years since they parted. Her slanted almond eyes all of a sudden reminded him of the girl who once always laughed.
They sat face to face and both of them noticed each other’s hands. She was wearing rings on every finger of her hands, except the nameless finger of her left hand. He was wearing only one ring and it was an ordinary diamond ring on the nameless finger of his left hand. She was once fascinated by his beautiful long fingers which moved so flexibly on the piano. Now his hands were coarse, dull and lumpy. They looked each other up and down in a most unnoticeable way, trying to judge from every clue how was their old lover’s life since they parted.
A Byron's poem suddenly came into the woman’s mind, a poem she saw one day after they broke up, which made the twenty-two-year-old girl's eyes laden with tears. “If I should meet you, after longs years, how should I greet you? – With silence and tears.” She had imagined their reunion scene for a thousand times. She could not help herself and laughed, but she immediately realized it was not proper to laugh at this moment. She gently said sorry. Her laughter made him very nervous. He quietly checked if his tie was crooked. He then subconsciously touched his fake wallet on the corner of the table, which he bought for this dinner, but almost knocked over the water glass.
"I need to go to the bathroom," the man squeezed an embarrassed smile. He got up from his seat. The woman’s eyes swept down his body, and noticed his hips, which were apparently out-of-shape because of sitting all day in the office and never exercising. The man went into the bathroom. He looked at the mirror and checked his wig was still alright. He took a look at his watch: the car he rented needed to be returned within two hours. The man took a deep breath and then stepped out the bathroom.
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