They stand there staring at him, not at all unlike the way they were standing just now and staring into that hole.
It seems to be their prime area of competence, in fact: to stare at things. Ove stares back.
“Another second, I mean,” clarifies the man who still has a banana in his hand.
It could have gone quite badly, that,sniggers the first hard hat.
“Really badly,” the other one agrees. “Could have died, actually,” clarifies the third.
“You’re a real hero!” “Saved their life!” “His. Saved his life,” Ove corrects and hears Sonja’s voice in his own.
“Would have died otherwise,” the third one reiterates, taking a forthright bite of his banana.
On the track is the train with all its red emergency lights turned on, puffing and screeching like a very fat person who’s just run into a wall.
A great number of examples of what Ove assumes must be IT consultants
and other disreputable folk come streaming out and stand about dizzily on the platform.
Ove puts his hands in his trouser pockets. “I suppose now you’ll have a lot of bloody delayed trains as well,” he says
and looks with particular displeasure at the chaotic press of people on the platform.
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