Laura ironically confirms: "I'm a happily married woman."Fred, dear Fred.There's so much that I want to say o you.You're the only one in the world with enough wisdom and gentleness to understand.If only it was somebody else's story and not mine.As it is, you're the only one in the world that I can never tell.Never never.Because even if I waited until we were old, old people and told you then, you'd be bound to look back over the years and be hurt.The blowing trees outside his window cast moving shadows across his pillow and rustle the curtains.Inexplicably but intentionally, a mechanical toy monkey on his dresser begins moving manically - it noisily clashes its two cymbals together.The work is a mesmerizing romantic suspense/thriller about a macabre, doomed romance - a desperate love for an illusion."With the sound of a racetrack bugle, Hackenbush departs for the nearby racetrack - attracted by the horses.