Schosse couldn’t speak any Swedish but he was very interested in speaking anyway.
Sonja had a little book in which she looked things up, so she could say things like “sunset” and “ham” in Spanish.
Ove felt it didn’t stop being the butt end of a pig just because you said it another way, but he never mentioned this.
On the other hand he tried to point out to her that she shouldn’t give money to the beggars in the street, as they’d only buy schnapps with it.
But she kept doing it. “They can do what they like with the money,” she said.
When Ove protested she just smiled and took his big hands in hers and kissed them,
explaining that when a person gives to another person it’s not just the receiver who’s blessed. It’s the giver.
On the third day she went to bed in the middle of the day.
Because that was what people did in Spain, she said, and one should adopt the “local customs of a place.”
Ove suspected it was not so much about customs as her own preferences, and this suited her very well as an excuse.
She already slept sixteen hours out of twenty-four since she got pregnant.
Ove occupied himself by going for walks. He took the road leading past the hotel into the village.
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