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It begins as a fairytale drawing two strangers magnetically in an impromptu dance as if the grand exhibition hall at l'Hotel de Ville were the swirling ballroom in "Romeo and Juliet" that segways to the adjacent room, magically empty, where he has fled, and she within moments follows.

The ballerina takes the assertive role as she steps to the threshhold separating the two spaces. Touching tentatively the high doorposts as if for assurance, she spots him diagonally forty feet away, and nodding decisively straightaway crosses the empty floor to where he sits.

He hasn't expected her to come to him. He doesn't believe it as she sits beside him on the bench comfortably, almost familiarly as if two friends comparing notes, her voice low and thrilling.

- Richard Rappaport, Is That All There Is! - The German Girl, "Portraits & Passages", Book III - 'The Penumbra', www.richard-rappaport.net.