"Dr. Portman wants me to put her into a nursing home, but I can't do it."
"I can't stand to think of her in one of those institutions."
She opened the bedroom door to let the dog out, and when he jumped and whined joyously, she picked him up and hugged him.
"I just can't do that to my own mother." Then she smiled at me uncertainly.
"Well, what a surprise. I never dreamed. Let me look at you."
"I never would have recognized you. I'd have passed you by in the street. So different." She sighed.
"I'm glad to see you, Charlie." "Are you? I didn't think you'd want to see me again."
"Oh, Charlie!" She took my hands in hers. "Don't say that. I am glad to see you."
"I've been expecting you. I didn't know when, but I knew someday you'd come back."
"Ever since I read that you had run away in Chicago."
She pulled back to look up at me. "You don't know how I've thought about you and wondered where you were and what you were doing."
"Until that professor came here last—when was it? last March? just seven months ago? —I had no idea you were still alive."
전체재생
다음페이지
문장검색