of being with a husband you were only just getting to know. This is a good life, Nora would think to herself, over and over again.
Yes, being a parent was exhausting, but Molly was easy to love, at least in daylight hours.
In fact, Nora often preferred it when Molly was home from school
because it added a bit of challenge to what was otherwise a rather frictionless existence.
No relationship stress, no work stress, no money stress.
It was a lot to be grateful for. There were inevitably shaky moments. She felt the familiar feeling of being in a play
for which she didn’t know the lines. “Is anything wrong?” she asked Ash one night. “It’s just...”
He looked at her with his kind smile and intense, scrutinising eyes. “I don’t know.
You forgot our anniversary was coming up. You think you haven’t seen films you’ve seen. And vice versa.
You forgot you had a bike. You forget where the plates are. You’ve been wearing my slippers. You get into my side of the bed.”
“Jeez, Ash,” she said, a little bit too tense. “It’s like being interrogated by the three bears.”
“I just worry...” “I’m fine. Just, you know, lost in research world. Lost in the woods. Thoreau’s woods.”
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