So I try the lines again. No matter what I do, I can't say them in a way that convinces me or Guskin that I mean them. Just don't stop. Keep going, and you'll win. With curses in her mouth, tears in her eyes. . . .
Reality begins to shift.
I start to see Anne's weakness from the outside. Reading Richard's lines again and again, I stop identifying with her pain. I am in command. Everything starts to look simpler than it did before. Stand, Guskin says.