So Howard Coleman couldn't help but listen intently.
It wasn't until the woman singing behind him reached the point of heartbreaking sorrow, wailing "I've always stood where you hurt me, you've always lingered in the distant place that made me weep," that Howard suddenly remembered why this song was so familiar to him. It was because, once when he was passing under a bridge with Madeleine, she gave a lot of money to a young man busking, asking the man to sing this song several times over.
I've always stood where you hurt me, you've always lingered in the distant place that made me weep.
Howard's throat felt somewhat choked up, he remembered giving that busking man a lot of money, and from him he learned that Madeleine had said, "It seems like I'm about to lose the man I deeply love."
