They had both protested about the whole arrangement, insistently and vociferously, but without success.
Sonja’s father was negatively disposed from the very beginning.
All he knew about this boy was that he came from town and that Sonja had mentioned that he did not like cats very much.
These were two characteristics, as far as he was concerned, that gave him reason enough to view Ove as unreliable.
As for Ove, he felt he was at a job interview, and he had never been very good at that sort of thing.
So when Sonja wasn’t talking, which admittedly she did almost all of the time, there was a sort of silence in the room
that can only arise between a man who does not want to lose his daughter and a man who has not yet completely understood that he has been chosen.
Finally Sonja kicked Ove’s shinbone to make him say something.
Ove looked up from his plate and noted the angry twitches around the edges of her eyes.
He cleared his throat and looked around with a certain desperation to find something to ask this old man about.
Because this was what Ove had learned: if one didn’t have anything to say, one had to find something to ask.
If there was one thing that made people forget to dislike one, it was when they were given the opportunity to talk about themselves.
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