and when this happened it was as if something started singing inside Sonja. And they belonged only to her, those moments.
She didn’t get angry with him that first night they had dinner, when he told her he’d lied about his military service.
Of course, she got angry with him on an immeasurable number of occasions after that, but not that night.
“They say the best men are born out of their faults and that they often improve later on,”
more than if they’d never done anything wrong,she’d said gently.
“Who said that?” asked Ove and looked at the triple set of cutlery in front of him on the table,
the way one might look at a box that had just been opened while someone said, “Choose your weapon.”
“Shakespeare,” said Sonja. “Is that any good?” Ove wondered.
“It’s fantastic.” Sonja nodded, smiling. “I’ve never read anything with him,” mumbled Ove into the tablecloth.
“By him,” Sonja corrected, and lovingly put her hand on his.
In their almost four decades together Sonja taught hundreds of pupils with learning difficulties to read and write,
and she got them to read Shakespeare’s collected works.
전체재생
다음페이지
문장검색