
.... and it's like letting her go in pieces. Selling off his grief. Addie knows that he sits down here because he's afraid of dying alone in his apartment, of not being found--- not being missed.
"I keel out over here, " he says, "at least someone will notice."
He is a gruff old man, but Addie likes him. Sees the sadness in his anger, the guardedness of his grief.