There'd be no talk of low-hanging fruit and meaningless medals if there were someone she could race close and beat in real time.
It would be folly at this point to try to unload his contract, even if there were someone willing to pick it up.
"I have to see you," he said in a low voice, without thinking, as if there were someone else in the empty common room.
It's as if she were trying to remember something that she'd forgotten, as if there were someone she was supposed to call.
"If there were someone jogging today, got hit by a tree today, suffered the same kind of accident today, they would have access to the very same remedies I had access to," he said.
"The question is, Where do you go from here on solving the problems of the Mideast?" Of Mr. Arafat he said: "If there were someone who could step forward and do a better job of representing the Palestinian Authority, that would be fine.
I knew the transition to an empty nest might be less painful if there were someone else around the house, but it was hard to imagine making that a reality when Sophie's and my life together had grown even less conducive to sharing with a man.
They would be more reassuring if there were someone manning the guns or manning the steering column so that we might drive away at speed if need be, but there isn't anybody behind the wheel or the guns, just two empty, armed steel boxes parked by the side of the road.
