Which method name would you choose?

[Gribouillis]

I currently have this syntax

preamble, content = mediator.read()

Here, mediator is an instance of a Mediator class, which you can view as a smart pointer referencing a resource stored somewhere. The read() method accesses the resource and gets two things: a 'preamble' (instance of a Preamble class) and a 'content' which is a unicode string.

Problem: the method name read() doesn't seem very good to me because one usually expects that a read() method returns a string, but here it returns a tuple with two elements.

English is not my mother tongue, so what better word would you choose to name this method? The idea is to dereference the 'smart pointer' to get the pointed data.