...All this time he was sitting up in bed and looking at the woman who was lying beside him and holding his hand in her sleep. He felt ineffable love to her. Her sleep must have been very light at the moment because she opened her eyes and gazed up at him questioningly. 'What are you looking at?' she asked. He knew that instead of waking her he should lull her back to sleep, so he tried to come up with an answer that would plant the image of a new dream in her mind. 'I'm looking at the stars,' he said. 'Don't say you're looking at the start. That' s a lie. You're looking down.' 'That's because we are in an aeroplane. The stars are below us.' 'Oh, in an aeroplane,' said Tereza, squeezing his hand even tighter and falling asleep again. And Tomas knew that Tereza was looking out of the round window of an aeroplane flying high above the stars...