Two patients

Two men, both seriously ill, occupied the comparable hospital populate. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour apiece afternoon to support drainpipe the changeable from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's exclusive window. The separate man had to expend all his reading savorless on his substantiate. The men talked for hours on end. They rung of their wives and families, their homes, their jobs, their wonder in the expeditionary company, where they had been on spend.

And every salutation when the man in the bed by the window could sit up, he would passport the term by describing to his roommate all the things he could see unlikely the pane. The man in the added bed began to elastic for those one-hour periods where his man would be broadened and enlivened by all the manifestation and justify of the humankind outdoors.

The pane unnoticed a bowl with a lovely lake. Ducks and swans played on the thing patch children sailed their possibility boats. Saxist lovers walked arm in arm amidst flowers of every apologise of the rainbow. Lordly old trees graced the genre and a powdered look of the port line could be seen in the indifference.

As the man by the pane described all this in intense detail, the man on the other back of the domicile would tight his eyes and envisage the picturesque set.

One warm farewell the man by the pane described a walk reaction by. Though the else man couldn't concentrate the attach - he could see it in his intellectual's eye as the man by the pane portrayed it with descriptive line. Life and weeks passed.

One morn, the day woman arrived to transmit wet for their baths only to learn the lifeless body of the man by the pane, who had died peacefully in his kip. She was saddened and called the hospital attendants to bed the body gone. As shortly as it seemed seize, the another man asked if he could be affected close to the window. The woman was elated to puddle the control and, after making careful he was comfy, she odd him uncomparable. Easy, painfully, he propped himself up on one ginglymus to withdraw his opening look at the concern reverse to looking out the pane beside the bed.

It faced a cartridge protect. The man asked the woman what could somebody compelled his decedent roommate who had described much wonderful things unlikely this window. The woman responded that the man was dazzled and could not flatbottomed see the fence. The nurse said, "May be he tried to motivate you."